- Identification and Creation
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- Object Number
- 1943.50.70
- Title
- Thin, Chisel-Like Jade Blade
- Classification
- Ritual Implements
- Work Type
- chisel
- Date
- Longshan or Erlitou culture, c. 2000 BCE - c. 1700 BCE
- Places
- Creation Place: East Asia, China
- Period
- Neolithic period
- Culture
- Chinese
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/204894
- Physical Descriptions
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- Medium
- Translucent, deep celadon-green nephrite with a few whitish markings
- Dimensions
- 18.8 x 4.7 x 0.3 cm (7 3/8 x 1 7/8 x 1/8 in.)
unspecified: 45 g
- Published Text
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- 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. 201 by Max Loehr:
201 Thin Chisel-like Blade
Translucent, deep celadon-green jade with a few whitish markings. The thin, plano-convex blade has a concave edge, with the tips broken off. Of the two perforations, the upper and smaller one is conical; the lower one, cylindrical and irregularly rounded. A sharply marked, straight groove runs on the convex surface from the upper hole to the butt. The sides are sharp-edged. Western Chou(?). - Acquisition and Rights
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- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop
- Accession Year
- 1943
- Object Number
- 1943.50.70
- Division
- Asian and Mediterranean Art
- Contact
- am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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- Publication History
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Max Loehr and Louisa G. Fitzgerald Huber, Ancient Chinese Jades from the Grenville L. Winthrop Collection in the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1975), cat. no. 201, pp. 158-159
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