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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1943.50.551
Title
Large Glass Disk
Classification
Ritual Implements
Work Type
disk
Date
3rd cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE
Places
Creation Place: East Asia, China
Period
Warring States period (475-221 BCE) to Western Han period (206 BCE-9 CE)
Culture
Chinese
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/204864

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Faintly greenish, almost colorless glass, the surface of which is coated with an unevenly creamy white and slightly irridescent substance, probably due to weathering and decomposition
Dimensions
0.7 x 17.4 cm (1/4 x 6 7/8 in.)
unspecified: 563 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. 541 by Max Loehr:

541 Large Glass Disk
Faintly greenish, almost colorless glass, the surface of which is coated with an unevenly creamy white and slightly iridescent substance, probably due to weathering and decomposition. Both sides of the disk are covered with a pattern of raised dots on a grid of hexagons. Wide, flat margins; cylindrical hole. Western Han.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop
Accession Year
1943
Object Number
1943.50.551
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. 541, p. 378

Verification Level

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