1943.50.241: Jade Feline Caryatid
Ritual ImplementsIdentification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1943.50.241
- Title
- Jade Feline Caryatid
- Classification
- Ritual Implements
- Work Type
- ornament
- Date
- 475 BCE - 221 BCE
- Places
- Creation Place: East Asia, China
- Period
- Zhou dynasty, Warring States period, 475-221 BCE
- Culture
- Chinese
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/204966
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Whitish translucent nephrite with calcification
- Dimensions
-
6.1 x 2 x 0.5 cm (2 3/8 x 13/16 x 3/16 in.)
unspecified: 7 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. 446 by Max Loehr:
446 Feline Caryatid
Whitish translucent jade, the glossy surface of which is impaired by calcification. The small openwork plaque represents a feline standing upright on his one pair of feet; his body and curlicue tail sweep upward like the tail of a rooster. His head and tail support a pedestaled emblem the shape of which is reminiscent of the bottle-shaped horns of Shang and Western Chou dragons. The parts of the animal’s body are defined in low relief. Late Eastern Chou.
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop
- Accession Year
- 1943
- Object Number
- 1943.50.241
- 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. 446, p. 305
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