- Identification and Creation
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- Object Number
- 1943.50.483
- Title
- Perforated Jade Plaque with Dragons in Openwork
- Classification
- Ritual Implements
- Work Type
- ornament
- Date
- 25 CE - 220 CE (?)
- Places
- Creation Place: East Asia, China
- Period
- Han dynasty, Eastern Han period, 25-220 CE
- Culture
- Chinese
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/204806
- Physical Descriptions
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- Medium
- Bone-colored nephrite that has largely lost its translucency
- Dimensions
- 5.4 x 0.5 cm (2 1/8 x 3/16 in.)
unspecified: 18 g
- Published Text
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- 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. 579 by Max Loehr:
579 Perforated Oval Plaque with Dragons in Openwork
Bone-colored jade that has largely lost is translucency. The plaque, which has a pointed extrusion below, is surrounded by two dragons in lively postures. The smaller of the two perches at the top; the large one, whose head lies to the right of the pointed extrusion, is partly submerged, the hind portion of his body shown re-emerging to the left of the point. The dragons are carved in relief on the upper side, while on the convex underside they show as incised designs. In other words, they are conceived in the round. Probably Eastern Han. - Acquisition and Rights
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- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop
- Accession Year
- 1943
- Object Number
- 1943.50.483
- Division
- Asian and Mediterranean Art
- Contact
- am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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- Publication History
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Max Loehr and Louisa G. Fitzgerald Huber, Ancient Chinese Jades from the Grenville L. Winthrop Collection in the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1975), cat. no. 579, p. 400
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