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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1943.50.146
Title
Jade Segment-Shaped Pendant
Classification
Ritual Implements
Work Type
pendant
Date
5th 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/204885

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Milky white nephrite with a greenish tinge
Dimensions
8.2 x 2.2 x 0.9 cm (3 1/4 x 7/8 x 3/8 in.)
unspecified: 30 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. 493 by Max Loehr:

493 Segment-shaped Pendant
This piece of milky white jade with a greenish tinge has the shape of an approximately semicircular segment, wedge-shaped in cross-section and terminating in animal heads. At the apex is a suspension device in the form of symmetrical openwork scrolls. The surfaces are plain and highly polished. Late Eastern Chou or Western Han.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop
Accession Year
1943
Object Number
1943.50.146
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. 493, p. 335
  • Jenny So, Early Chinese Jades in the Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2019), pp. 206, 208, cat. 24C

Verification Level

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