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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1943.50.107
Title
Slice of a "Cong" Cylinder
Classification
Ritual Implements
Work Type
plaque, ritual
Date
Late 3rd or early 2nd millennium BCE
Places
Creation Place: East Asia, China
Period
Neolithic period
Culture
Chinese
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/204996

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Translucent light green nephrite with opaque buff clouds; southeast Neolithic piece modified in the northwest
Dimensions
L. 14.5 x W. 5.1 cm (5 11/16 x 2 in.)
Weight 69 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. 238 by Max Loehr:

238 Fragment Shaped like the Side of a Ts’ung
Thin tablet of translucent light green jade with opaque buff clouds, apparently the reworked remnant of a thin-bodied ts’ung. At the top, the tablet shows a short segment of the projecting cylinder wall; at the left side is a sequence of seven décor units with one short and two long relief bands separated by notches, similar to No. 236. At the right side of the edge has been cut off. Near the top of the central channel is a conical perforation drilled from the back. The back shows a vertical furrow in the center, a flat plane to the left, and to the right, where the original edge is intact, a rounded slope. The table has a perfunctorily executed, convex bottom edge. Late Western Chou.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop
Accession Year
1943
Object Number
1943.50.107
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. 238, p. 183
  • Jenny So, Early Chinese Jades in the Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2019), p. 81, fig. 6

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