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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1943.50.582
Title
Jade Disk with Curly Appendages
Classification
Ritual Implements
Work Type
ornament
Date
probably 475 BCE - 221 BCE
Places
Creation Place: East Asia, China
Period
Zhou dynasty, Warring States period, 475-221 BCE
Culture
Chinese
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/204643

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Gray-green and creamy light brown, largely opaque nephrite
Dimensions
0.5 x 5.4 x 2.9 cm (3/16 x 2 1/8 x 1 1/8 in.)
unspecified: 9 g

Published Text

Catalogue
Ancient Chinese Jades from the Grenville L. Winthrop Collection in the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University
Authors
Max Loehr and Louisa G. Fitzgerald Huber
Publisher
Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1975)

Catalogue entry no. 512 by Max Loehr:

512 Small Disk with Curly Appendages
Gray-green and creamy light brown, largely opaque jade of inferior quality. The plain surface and the saw marks terminating on both sides suggest that the piece is unfinished. It consists of a disk with a slightly conical bore-hole and with paired but not quite symmetrical appendages that curl downward from diametrical points on the perimeter. Probably late Eastern Chou.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop
Accession Year
1943
Object Number
1943.50.582
Division
Asian and Mediterranean Art
Contact
am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Max Loehr and Louisa G. Fitzgerald Huber, Ancient Chinese Jades from the Grenville L. Winthrop Collection in the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University (Cambridge, MA, Fogg Art Museum, 1975)., cat. no. 512, p. 345

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