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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1943.50.430
Title
Jade Dragon Silhouette
Classification
Ritual Implements
Work Type
ornament
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/205049

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Light olive-green and russet nephrite
Dimensions
6.7 x 4.1 x 0.5 cm (2 5/8 x 1 5/8 x 3/16 in.)
unspecified: 20 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. 430 by Max Loehr:

430 Dragon Silhouette
Unfinished and possibly fragmentary figure of a dragon with curled crest, carved of light-green and russet jade. The short body ends rather abruptly and shapelessly in an attenuated and apparently incomplete tail curl. The head shows a rounded muzzle and undercut jaw. A rough furrow along the animal’s back must have occurred during the sawing process: when the slab was not quite sawed through, it was simply snapped off and broken away from the rest of the stone. Near a curl in the front of the body, the piece is perforated by a conical, slanting drill-hole. Late Eastern Chou.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop
Accession Year
1943
Object Number
1943.50.430
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. 430, p. 295

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