1943.50.456: Jade Belt Hook with Recumbent Deer Decor
Ritual ImplementsIdentification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1943.50.456
- Title
- Jade Belt Hook with Recumbent Deer Decor
- Classification
- Ritual Implements
- Work Type
- ornament
- Date
- 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/204734
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Grayish, discolored nephrite
- Dimensions
-
L. 8.3 x W. 3.7 x D. 3.1 cm (3 1/4 x 1 7/16 x 1 1/4 in.)
unspecified: 56 g
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
- [C. T. Loo & Co., New York, March 29, 1935] sold; to Grenville L. Winthrop, New York (1935-1943), bequest; to Harvard Art Museums, 1943
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. 470 by Max Loehr:
470 Belt Hook
Grayish, discolored jade. The hook is shaped as an elaborately modeled animal head with pointed ears, one horn, and an upcurled snout. On the upper side, the piece is decorated with a relief pattern of angular volutes arranged in pairs, followed by a tiger mask at the end. One edge is occupied by a deer figure in the round, his legs outstretched at a flying gallop. On the reverse side appears an all-over pattern of C -shaped relief spirals, while the top of the rounded button is decorated with a complicated whorl design. 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
- 1943.50.456
- Division
- Asian and Mediterranean Art
- Contact
- am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
- Permissions
-
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Publication History
- Dorothy W. Gillerman, ed., Grenville L. Winthrop: Retrospective for a Collector, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, 1969), no. 030, pp. 24-25
- 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. 470, p. 321
Subjects and Contexts
- Google Art Project
Verification Level
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