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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1943.50.266
Title
Jade Water Buffalo Twosome
Classification
Ritual Implements
Work Type
pendant
Date
12th cent. BCE - 11th cent. BCE
Places
Creation Place: East Asia, China
Period
Shang dynasty, c. 1600-c. 1050 BCE
Culture
Chinese
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/205055

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Mottled light and dark gray, slightly translucent nephrite pebble
Dimensions
2.5 x 4.6 x 3.5 cm (1 x 1 13/16 x 1 3/8 in.)
unspecified: 61 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. 150 by Max Loehr:

150 A Water Buffalo Twosome
Mottled light and dark gray, slightly translucent jade pebble. The underside is hollowed out into an oval trough that is filled by a crudely executed, curled dragon figure in thread-relief. The object is transformed into a pair of reclining buffalo whose full-round heads face in opposite directions. The heads are similar to No. 149; the limbs; too, compare with that piece – except that the left forelegs are engraved side by side between the raised heads. Diagonal perforation at the lower corner behind one of the heads. Late Shang(?).

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop
Accession Year
1943
Object Number
1943.50.266
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. 150, p. 124

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