1943.50.285: Jade Tiger
Ritual ImplementsIdentification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1943.50.285
- Title
- Jade Tiger
- Classification
- Ritual Implements
- Work Type
- pendant
- Date
- 14th cent. BCE - 10th cent. BCE
- Places
- Creation Place: East Asia, China
- Period
- Shang dynasty (c. 1600-c. 1050 BCE) to Western Zhou period (c. 1050-771 BCE)
- Culture
- Chinese
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/204731
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Mottled pale bluish green, faintly translucent nephrite
- Dimensions
-
2 x 6.4 x 0.3 cm (13/16 x 2 1/2 x 1/8 in.)
unspecified: 6 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. 147 by Max Loehr:
147 Tiger
Mottled pail bluish green, faintly translucent jade plaque in the shape of a tiger. The tiger is widest at the head; his body decreases in width toward his hindquarters and his broad, pointed tail. The ears have the shape of a recumbent C. Incised details identical on both sides. Perforation at the mouth, drilled from the left side. Late Shang or early Western Chou.
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop
- Accession Year
- 1943
- Object Number
- 1943.50.285
- Division
- Asian and Mediterranean Art
- Contact
- am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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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. 147, p. 123
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