1943.50.199: Jade Scabbard Buckle
Ritual ImplementsIdentification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1943.50.199
- Title
- Jade Scabbard Buckle
- Classification
- Ritual Implements
- Work Type
- ornament
- Date
- 3rd cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE
- Places
- Creation Place: East Asia, China
- Period
- Han dynasty, Western Han period, 206 BCE-9 CE
- Culture
- Chinese
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/204910
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Translucent, pale green nephrite with russet and dark brown markings
- Dimensions
-
8 x 3 x 2.5 cm (3 1/8 x 1 3/16 x 1 in.)
unspecified: 63 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. 457 by Max Loehr:
457 Scabbard Buckle
Translucent, pale green jade with russet and dark brown markings. The surfaces have a glossy finish, except for those parts that would remain invisible when the buckle is mounted. The boldly modeled décor, a draconic feline with a long fluted and twisted tail of symmetrical form, evidently was devised so as to exploit the given shape of the raw pebble. An atypically short, straight projection takes the place of the normally curved part of the bar above the bracket, while the long projection below the bracket slopes sideways. The bracket itself is deprived of its normally rectangular shape, one of its corners being rounded, the other one ground off obliquely. 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
- 1943.50.199
- 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. 457, p. 311
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