Axe-Shaped Jade Tablet | Harvard Art Museums

Identification and Creation

Object Number: 1943.50.97
Title: Axe-Shaped Jade Tablet
Classification: Ritual Implements
Work Type: axe
Date: c. 4000 BCE - c. 2000 BCE
Places: Creation Place: East Asia, China
Period: Neolithic period
Culture: Chinese
Persistent Link: https://hvrd.art/o/205029

Physical Descriptions

Medium: Mottled green, gray, and black nephrite with whitish veins
Dimensions: 17.7 x 13.4 x 0.4 cm (6 15/16 x 5 1/4 x 3/16 in.)
unspecified: 203 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. 193 by Max Loehr:

193 Axe-shaped Tablet
Mottled green, gray, and black jade with whitish veins. Thin and flat, evenly smoothed tablet with tapering sides and rounded off shoulders. Slightly curved, slanting, blunt edge. The perforation is not circular; its wall is uneven as if it had been chiseled out rather than drilled. Western Chou(?).

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop

Accession Year

1943

Object Number

1943.50.97

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. 193, p. 152

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