1943.50.498: Small Jade Fluted Ring
Ritual ImplementsIdentification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1943.50.498
- Title
- Small Jade Fluted Ring
- Classification
- Ritual Implements
- Work Type
- ring
- Date
- c. 4000 BCE - c. 2000 BCE
- Places
- Creation Place: East Asia, China
- Period
- Neolithic period
- Culture
- Chinese
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/204865
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Deep celadon-green and cream-colored, partly calcified nephrite
- Dimensions
-
H. 2.6 x Diam. 4.3 x Thickness 0.5 cm (1 x 1 11/16 x 3/16 in.)
31 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. 171 by Max Loehr:
171 Small Fluted Ring
Deep celadon-green and cream-colored, partly calcified jade. Furrows run around the outer wall of the ring; the ridges between them are marked by longitudinal grooves. The perforation widens at both ends. Shang.
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop
- Accession Year
- 1943
- Object Number
- 1943.50.498
- 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. 171, p. 136
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