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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1943.50.275
Title
Jade Cicada
Classification
Ritual Implements
Work Type
ornament
Date
probably Shijiahe culture, c. 2500 BCE - c. 2000 BCE
Places
Creation Place: East Asia, China
Period
Neolithic period
Culture
Chinese
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/204728

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Evenly light green, highly translucent nephrite
Dimensions
4.7 x 2.8 x 1.2 cm (1 7/8 x 1 1/8 x 1/2 in.)
unspecified: 35 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. 314 by Max Loehr:

314 Cicada
Magnificent sculpture in the round, fashioned of a convexly curved, thick piece of evenly light green, and highly translucent jade. Seen from above, the outline is rectangular. They eyes are very prominent. A transverse band with raised borders separates the head from the body and wings; the wings are marked by apparently worn-down and only faintly recognizable incisions. The underside is plain. A large hole is drilled through the length of the piece; along each of the two longitudinal edges are two small perforations drilled from the bottom and the sides. Western Chou.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop
Accession Year
1943
Object Number
1943.50.275
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. 314, p. 213
  • Jenny So, Early Chinese Jades in the Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2019), pp. 84-86, cat. 5A

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