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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1943.50.535
Title
Jade Collared Disk
Classification
Ritual Implements
Work Type
disk
Date
16th cent. BCE - 8th cent. BCE
Places
Creation Place: East Asia, China
Period
Shang dynasty (c. 1600-c. 1050 BCE) to Western Zhou period (c. 1050-771 BCE)
Culture
Chinese
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/204826

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Fine-grained nephrite of the color of old ivory, without any signs of calcification
Dimensions
0.4 x 2.4 x 14.8 cm (3/16 x 15/16 x 5 13/16 in.)
unspecified: 168 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. 103 by Max Loehr:

103 Collared Disk
Disk with comparatively high collar around the inner edge. Fine-grained stone of the color of old ivory, without any signs of calcification. The surface is polished smooth and shiny. On the lower side, the collar dips, in what appears to be an original depression. On the same side of the disk are discernible very finely incised, concentric grooves, arranged in groups of three, in three divided bands. Shang or Western Chou.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop
Accession Year
1943
Object Number
1943.50.535
Division
Asian and Mediterranean Art
Contact
am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Dorothy W. Gillerman, ed., Grenville L. Winthrop: Retrospective for a Collector, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, 1969), no. 008, pp. 10-11
  • 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. 103, p. 100

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