1943.50.620: Jade Ring Segment with Dragon Design
Ritual ImplementsIdentification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1943.50.620
- Title
- Jade Ring Segment with Dragon Design
- Classification
- Ritual Implements
- Work Type
- pendant
- Date
- early Western Zhou, c. 11th cent. BCE - 10th cent. BCE
- Places
- Creation Place: East Asia, China
- Period
- Zhou dynasty, Western Zhou period, c. 1050-771 BCE
- Culture
- Chinese
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/204871
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Fragment of a thin-walled ring or bracelet of variegated gray-green neprhite
- Dimensions
-
7.2 x 1.5 x 0.3 cm (2 13/16 x 9/16 x 1/8 in.)
unspecified: 9 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. 298 by Max Loehr:
298 Ring Segment with Dragon Design
Fragment of a thin-walled ring or bracelet of variegated gray-green jade. Identically engraved on both sides are figures of dragons; behind their convolute tails the space is partly filled with hooked triangles. Only the head of the dragons are carved out, the rest being executed in low relief lines. There is a perforation at the mouth. Early Western Chou.
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop
- Accession Year
- 1943
- Object Number
- 1943.50.620
- 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. 298, p. 208
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