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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1943.50.485
Title
Jade Ring with Grooves
Classification
Ritual Implements
Work Type
ring
Date
possibly Longshan culture, c. 3500 BCE - c. 2500 BCE
Places
Creation Place: East Asia, China
Period
Neolithic period
Culture
Chinese
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/204807

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Translucent, pale greenish nephrite with buff and gray markings
Dimensions
3.3 x 5.7 x 0.3 cm (1 5/16 x 2 1/4 x 1/8 in.)
unspecified: 45 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. 322 by Max Loehr:

322 Ring with Grooves
Thin-walled ring fashioned of translucent, pale greenish jade with buff and gray markings. Around the middle of the outer wall runs a furrow flanked by incised parallel grooves. A hole is drilled near one edge. Western Chou(?).

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop
Accession Year
1943
Object Number
1943.50.485
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. 322, p. 216

Verification Level

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