Jade 'Yuan' Disk | Harvard Art Museums

Identification and Creation

Object Number: 1943.50.520
Title: Jade 'Yuan' Disk
Classification: Ritual Implements
Work Type: disk
Date: Longshan culture (?), c. 2500 BCE - c. 2000 BCE
Places: Creation Place: East Asia, China
Period: Neolithic period
Culture: Chinese
Persistent Link: https://hvrd.art/o/204798

Physical Descriptions

Medium: Translucent, evenly pale green nephrite with a few brown markings
Dimensions: Diam. 14.7 x Thickness 0.4 cm (5 13/16 x 3/16 in.)
116 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. 230 by Max Loehr:

230 Yüan Disk
Thin disk with a wide perforation, fashioned of translucent, evenly pale green jade with a few brown markings and a radial crack. Conical bore-hole. Two slight ridges on the underside, which are not completely ground down, still reveal the process of sawing the slab out of the original boulder. Western Chou(?).

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop

Accession Year

1943

Object Number

1943.50.520

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. 230, pp. 176-177

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