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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1943.50.253
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/205017

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Highly translucent pale green and opaque cream-colored nephrite
Dimensions
9.3 x 2.4 x 2.3 cm (3 11/16 x 15/16 x 7/8 in.)
unspecified: 129 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. 556a by Max Loehr:

556 Pair of Pigs
Highly translucent pale green and opaque cream-colored jade. Prismatic pieces rounded off along the animals’ backs but flat at the rear and bottom. The pieces are schematically carved with sloping cuts and are polished except for the bottoms, the left side of a and the right side of b. The unfinished state of the two sides might indicate that the animals were intended to be placed side by side. On the whole similar to the preceding pair, with perforations in the same places. 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
1943.50.253
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. 556a, p. 388

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