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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1943.50.258
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/205069

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Mottled brownish stone with glossy, polished surfaces
Dimensions
11.7 x 3 x 2.8 cm (4 5/8 x 1 3/16 x 1 1/8 in.)
unspecified: 164 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. 555a by Max Loehr:

555 Pair of Pigs
Mottled brownish stone with glossy, polished surfaces; iron oxide stain on the head of one of the figures. The parts are defined by resolutely and sharply cut sloping facets, arranged in a more formalistic manner than in the preceding pair. Small perforations through the tail ridge and below the snout. Late Western or Eastern Han.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop
Accession Year
1943
Object Number
1943.50.258
Division
Asian and Mediterranean Art
Contact
am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Dorothy W. Gillerman, ed., Grenville L. Winthrop: Retrospective for a Collector, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, 1969), no. 033, pp. 28-29
  • 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. 555a, p. 387

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