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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1943.50.250
Title
Jade Pig (one of a pair)
Classification
Ritual Implements
Work Type
figurine
Date
206 BCE - 9 CE
Places
Creation Place: East Asia, China
Period
Han dynasty, Western Han period, 206 BCE-9 CE
Culture
Chinese
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/205009

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Mottled dark green and buff nephrite
Dimensions
11.7 x 2.8 x 2.5 cm (4 5/8 x 1 1/8 x 1 in.)
unspecified: 199 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. 554a by Max Loehr:

554 Pair of Pigs
Mottled dark green and buff jade, with traces of cinnabar. The figures are carved from prismatic pieces slightly higher than wide. Heads and backs are rounded off; the bottoms remain flat and sharp-cornered. The ears are carved out in low relief, while the limbs are incised with sloping cuts. Three creases above the blunt snout are indicated by simple grooves. The eyes are indistinctly incised. A short perforated ridge at the back represents the tail. Another perforation is drilled transversely below the snout. Probably Western Han.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop
Accession Year
1943
Object Number
1943.50.250
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. 554a, p. 386

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