1943.50.181.A: Bird with Long Tail (one of two)
Ritual ImplementsIdentification 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
- 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. 254a, pp. 190-191
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