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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1943.50.110
Title
Jade Knife-Shaped Tablet
Classification
Ritual Implements
Work Type
ritual implement
Date
late 19th cent. - early 20th cent.
Places
Creation Place: East Asia, China
Period
Qing dynasty, 1644-1911
Culture
Chinese
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/204997

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Translucent, light gray-green stone with brown clouds
Dimensions
28.5 x 7.7 x 0.4 cm (11 1/4 x 3 1/16 x 3/16 in.)
unspecified: 228 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. 586 by Max Loehr:

586 Knife-shaped Tablet
Approximately rectangular, flat slab of translucent, light ray-green stone with brown clouds. While this piece does not possess the characteristic trapezoidal form of the ancient knives described above, Nos. 203, 204, 205, 206, 207, 208, 209, 210, 211, 212, 213, 214, 215, 216, 217, 218, it nevertheless belongs to the same typological group in consideration of the two perforations along the back and of its cutting edge, which is straight and blunt. Post-Han(?).

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop
Accession Year
1943
Object Number
1943.50.110
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. 586, p. 407

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