1943.50.531: Notched, Serrate Jade Slab
Ritual ImplementsIdentification 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
- Permissions
-
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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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