1943.50.348: Jade 'Huang' Segment with Animal Heads
Ritual ImplementsIdentification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1943.50.348
- 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/205005
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Translucent, mottled greenish brown nephrite with dark brown veins
- Dimensions
-
8.8 x 2.4 x 0.4 cm (3 7/16 x 15/16 x 3/16 in.)
unspecified: 32 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. 487 by Max Loehr:
487 Huang, Segment with Animal Heads
Translucent, mottled greenish brown jade with dark brown veins. The two heads issue from a nearly semicircular segment, disrupting its regular arc by their greater width; their plain faces contrast with the densely placed plastic curls that cover the remainder of the segment. There is a perforation at the apex of the arc. Late Easter Chou.
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop
- Accession Year
- 1943
- Object Number
- 1943.50.348
- 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. 487, p. 333
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