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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1943.50.181.A
Title
Bird with Long Tail (one of two)
Classification
Ritual Implements
Work Type
pendant
Date
c. 11th cent. BCE - 771 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/204934

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Greenish buff, much calcified nephrite
Dimensions
3.1 x 6.6 x 0.4 cm (1 1/4 x 2 5/8 x 3/16 in.)
unspecified: 10 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. 254 by Max Loehr:

254 Pair of Birds with Long Tails
Greenish buff, much calcified jade, which has largely lost is translucency. Heads and beaks are raised, so that these figures have a roughly triangular outline. The wings are marked by a volute and by grooved lines; the tails are grooved. Behind their feet these birds each have a striated, fin-like appendage. The eyes are circled by shallow depressions. Each bird has a perforation at the breast. Western Chou.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop
Accession Year
1943
Object Number
1943.50.181.A
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. 254a, pp. 190-191

Verification Level

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