- Identification and Creation
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- Object Number
- 1943.50.96
- Title
- Trapezoidal Knife-Shaped Jade Tablet
- Classification
- Ritual Implements
- Work Type
- knife
- Date
- 16th cent. BCE - 14th cent. BCE
- Places
- Creation Place: East Asia, China
- Period
- Shang dynasty, c. 1600-c. 1050 BCE
- Culture
- Chinese
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/204990
- Physical Descriptions
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- Medium
- Nephrite with sharply defined, translucent, pale bluish green and opaque buff areas divided by narrow dark bluish band
- Dimensions
- 21.8 x 8.3 x 0.3 cm (8 9/16 x 3 1/4 x 1/8 in.)
unspecified: 144 g
- Published Text
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- 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. 345 by Max Loehr:
345 Trapezoidal, Knife-shaped Tablet
The stone shows sharply defined, translucent, pale bluish green and opaque buff areas, divided by a narrow, dark bluish band. The back is straight, while the cutting edge and lateral edges are curved. Two conical holes are drilled from opposite sides near the back; a third one, near one of the sides. Eastern Chou(?). - Acquisition and Rights
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- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop
- Accession Year
- 1943
- Object Number
- 1943.50.96
- Division
- Asian and Mediterranean Art
- Contact
- am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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- Publication History
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Max Loehr and Louisa G. Fitzgerald Huber, Ancient Chinese Jades from the Grenville L. Winthrop Collection in the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1975), cat. no. 345, p. 231
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