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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1943.50.471
Title
Trapezoidal Jade Plaque
Classification
Ritual Implements
Work Type
plaque, ritual
Date
possibly 722 BCE - 481 BCE
Places
Creation Place: East Asia, China
Period
Zhou dynasty, Spring and Autumn period, 770-476 BCE
Culture
Chinese
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/204789

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Cream, tan, and light gray nephrite with blackish spots
Dimensions
3.6 x 6.2 x 0.4 cm (1 7/16 x 2 7/16 x 3/16 in.)
unspecified: 16 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. 377 by Max Loehr:

377 Trapezoidal Plaque
Cream, tan, and light gray jade with blackish spots, in the shape of a thin trapezoidal plaque. From the lower edge projects a recessed strip with two biconical drill-holes. One side is given the appearance of an extremely simplified face with eyes, consisting of two sunken concentric circles; a wedge-shaped part in the center; two sets of three horizontal grooves parallel to the upper edge; and two involute curls carved at the lower corners. Near the top of the center wedge there is a third perforation. On the opposite side is an engraving of a face of very different character, more complex and curvilinear, that would seem to have been added later. The face, in contrast to the other, is oriented so that the nose and lower portion of the face rest along the widest part of the trapezoid. Early Eastern Chou(?)

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop
Accession Year
1943
Object Number
1943.50.471
Division
Asian and Mediterranean Art
Contact
am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Alfred Salmony, Carved Jade of Ancient China, Gillick Press (Berkeley, CA, 1938), pl. 32: 7, 8
  • 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. 377, p. 252

Verification Level

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