- Identification and Creation
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- Object Number
- 1943.50.495
- Title
- Large Jade Ring
- Classification
- Ritual Implements
- Work Type
- ring
- Date
- c. 3300 BCE - c. 2000 BCE
- Places
- Creation Place: East Asia, China
- Period
- Neolithic period, Liangzhu culture, c. 3300-2200 BCE
- Culture
- Chinese
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/204822
- Physical Descriptions
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- Medium
- Pale sea-green nephrite turned mottled brown and buff on the exterior
- Dimensions
- 2.7 x 2.1 x 11.9 cm (1 1/16 x 13/16 x 4 11/16 in.)
unspecified: 456 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. 605 by Max Loehr:
605 Large, Heavy Ring
Approximately circular, thick-walled ring of inferior jade, mottled brown and buff on the outer faces, but pale sea-green on the inner wall. The perforation is slightly conical. Date uncertain. - 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
- 1943.50.495
- 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. 605, p. 417
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