- Identification and Creation
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- Object Number
- 1943.50.192
- Title
- Heavy Jade Prism-Shaped Bead
- Classification
- Ritual Implements
- Work Type
- ornament
- Date
- 14th cent. BCE - 11th cent. BCE
- Places
- Creation Place: East Asia, China
- Period
- Shang dynasty, c. 1600-c. 1050 BCE
- Culture
- Chinese
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/204899
- Physical Descriptions
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- Medium
- Greenish, partly discolored nephrite
- Dimensions
- 7 x 2.3 x 1.9 cm (2 3/4 x 7/8 x 3/4 in.)
unspecified: 64 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. 180 by Max Loehr:
180 Heavy Prism-shaped Bead
Despite its rough appearance, this ts’ung_-like, heavy pendant of greenish, partly discolored jade is distinguished by it s delicately carved decoration. On the wider sides and executed in raised lines are _t’ao-t’ieh faces in antithetical positions; cicadas, face-to-face, occupy the narrow sides. The four corners are accentuated by notched flanges. The object is perforated lengthwise; the inside of the fairly wide, conical hole is encrusted with cinnabar. Late Shang. - 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
- 1943.50.192
- 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. 180, p. 140
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