1943.50.347: Jade Serpent-Dragon
Ritual ImplementsIdentification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1943.50.347
- Title
- Jade Serpent-Dragon
- 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/204757
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Mottled gray-green translucent nephrite
- Dimensions
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2 x 19.6 x 0.5 cm (13/16 x 7 11/16 x 3/16 in.)
unspecified: 46 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. 435 by Max Loehr:
435 Serpent-Dragon
Mottled gray-green translucent jade. The elongated, continually tapering, smoothly outlined body is snake-like, but the head, with its straight-lined lower jaw and curled snout, is that of a dragon. The body, terminating in a rectangular tail, is covered with interconnected spirals in low relief. A forward pointing hook above the tail is the only appendage left. Perforated near the middle. 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
- 1943.50.347
- 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. 435, p. 298
- Jenny So, Early Chinese Jades in the Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2019), pp. 220-22, cat. 27A
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