Thin, Chisel-Like Jade Slab (one of a pair)

Identification and Creation

Object Number: 1943.50.15
Title: Thin, Chisel-Like Jade Slab (one of a pair)
Classification: Ritual Implements
Work Type: slab
Date: late 19th cent. - early 20th cent.
Places: Creation Place: East Asia, China
Period: Qing dynasty, 1644-1911
Culture: Chinese
Persistent Link: https://hvrd.art/o/205082

Physical Descriptions

Medium: Bluish gray, translucent, brown-flecked stone
Dimensions: 24.4 x 5 x 0.3 cm (9 5/8 x 1 15/16 x 1/8 in.)
unspecified: 105 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. 585a by Max Loehr:

585 Pair of Thin, Chisel-like Slabs
Bluish gray, translucent, brown-flecked stone, cut into two flat, sharp-cornered, rectangular slabs. The perforations are slanting and rather imperfectly drilled. Because of their sharpened lower edges, the objects resemble chisels, but neither their material nor shape links them with the Chou chisels described above (Nos. 196, 197, 198, 199, and 200). Probably post-Han.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

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

Accession Year

1943

Object Number

1943.50.15

Division

Asian and Mediterranean Art

Contact

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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. 585a, pp. 406-407

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