1943.50.487: Jade Bracelet
Ritual ImplementsIdentification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1943.50.487
- Title
- Jade Bracelet
- 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/204858
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Translucent celadon-green nephrite with slightly calcified, cream-colored clouds
- Dimensions
-
2.2 x 0.7 x 8.5 cm (7/8 x 1/4 x 3 3/8 in.)
unspecified: 97 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. 170 by Max Loehr:
170 Bracelet
Translucent celadon-green jade, with slightly calcified, cream-colored clouds. The inner wall of the ring is approximately cylindrical, the outer wall, concave. Around the outer wall, close to the edges run paired grooves; at four equidistant points are transverse depression comparable to those on No. 173. Shang.
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop
- Accession Year
- 1943
- Object Number
- 1943.50.487
- 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. 170, p. 135
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