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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1943.50.5
Title
Tapering Tablet "Gui"
Classification
Ritual Implements
Work Type
chisel
Date
2500-1900 BCE
Places
Creation Place: East Asia, China
Period
Neolithic period
Culture
Chinese
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/205135

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Mottled green nephrite with long whitish streaks and a brownish area; Middle Yellow River basin, Shenmu Shimao contexts
Dimensions
31.3 x 6 x 0.4 cm (12 5/16 x 2 3/8 x 3/16 in.)
unspecified: 179 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. 200 by Max Loehr:

200 Long Chisel-like Blade
Mottled green jade with long whitish streaks and a brownish area near the butt. Thin, flat blade with straight sides, straight butt, and curved edge. The perforation, drilled from the upper side, is conical. On the underside, the blade is grooved lengthwise. Western Chou(?).

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop
Accession Year
1943
Object Number
1943.50.5
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. 200, pp. 158-159
  • Jenny So, Early Chinese Jades in the Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2019), pp. 92-95, cat. 7C

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