1943.50.249: Jade Pig (one of a pair)
Ritual ImplementsIdentification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1943.50.249
- Title
- Jade Pig (one of a pair)
- Classification
- Ritual Implements
- Work Type
- figurine
- Date
- 25 CE - 220 CE
- Places
- Creation Place: East Asia, China
- Period
- Han dynasty, Eastern Han period, 25-220 CE
- Culture
- Chinese
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/205016
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Light gray stone and green and yellowish nephrite
- Dimensions
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9.2 x 2.5 x 2.2 cm (3 5/8 x 1 x 7/8 in.)
unspecified: 121 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. 557a by Max Loehr:
557 Pair of Pigs
Mixture of light gray stone and green and yellowish jade. Similar to the preceding pair in regard to form and finish. The carved design of the heads and limbs is more strongly conventionalized than in the preceding pairs. Again, the juxtaposed side of the two pieces (a, left side; b, right side) are left uncarved. Perforations like those in the preceding three sets (Nos. 554, 555, 556). Probably Eastern Han.
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop
- Accession Year
- 1943
- Object Number
- 1943.50.249
- 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. 557a, p. 389
Verification Level
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