1943.50.344: Jade Winged Dragon
Ritual ImplementsIdentification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1943.50.344
- Title
- Jade Winged Dragon
- 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/205050
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Greenish brown and cream-colored, partly calcified and rather opaque nephrite
- Dimensions
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5.8 x 2.8 x 0.5 cm (2 5/16 x 1 1/8 x 3/16 in.)
unspecified: 12 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. 439 by Max Loehr:
439 Winged Dragon
Greenish brown and cream-colored, partly calcified and rather opaque jade with a highly polished glossy surface. The shape of the body and the way it terminates in a pointed hook resemble Nos. 441 and 442, but here the limbs are not worked out in such studied contortions. The pointed hook motif recurs throughout—at the lower jaw, the short “mane,” the clawed foot, the tip of the wing—producing a harmonious and unified whole. The wing cutting obliquely across the body is a feature reminiscent of the dragon-and-bird pendant, No. 427:“468”:https://www.harvardartmuseums.org/collections/object/204746?position=0, and the shape of the head is closer to the dragons than to the two felines described above (No. 438). 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
- 1943.50.344
- 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. 439, p. 301
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