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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1943.50.341
Title
Jade 'Huang' Segment with Animal Heads
Classification
Ritual Implements
Work Type
pendant
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/204987

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Translucent pale green and light brown nephrite showing incipient calcification
Dimensions
10.3 x 2.2 x 0.4 cm (4 1/16 x 7/8 x 3/16 in.)
unspecified: 18 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. 489 by Max Loehr:

489 Huang, Segment with Animal Head
Flat segment of translucent, pale green and light brown jade showing incipient calcification. The ends of the segment are decorated with elaborately designed heads of feline(?) monsters, while the areas between these heads are covered with plastic curls. The curls, which are relatively large and diversified, were not worked out on the basis of a grid patter. A distinguishing trait of the heads is the finely incised lineament, which follows the contours of their features, forms a twisted rope along their mouths, and in striae fills in the comma-shaped tufts on their cheeks. A small perforation is at the apex. 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
1943.50.341
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. 489, p. 333

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