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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1943.50.531
Title
Notched, Serrate Jade Slab
Classification
Ritual Implements
Work Type
disk
Date
c. 2500 BCE - c. 1500 BCE
Places
Creation Place: East Asia, China
Period
Neolithic period to Shang dynasty
Culture
Chinese
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/204823

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Translucent stone in a relatively dark shade of celadon-green, becoming a greenish brown along the straight edge which has no teeth
Dimensions
Diam. 15.2 x Thickness 0.8 cm (6 x 5/16 in.)
187 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. 105 by Max Loehr:

105 Notched, Serrate Slab
Fairly heavy, irregularly quadrangular slab with a wide perforation and four quite irregular notches, some deep and some shallow. On three of the arcs are small serrations or “teeth” in sets of four. The stone is a translucent, relatively dark shade of celadon-green, becoming a greenish brown along the straight edge which has no teeth. The perforation seems to have been drilled from both sides and the interior surface then evened. Shang(?).

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop
Accession Year
1943
Object Number
1943.50.531
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. 105, p. 102
  • Jenny So, Early Chinese Jades in the Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2019), pp. 96-99, cat. 8A

Verification Level

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