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Identification 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
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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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