- Identification and Creation
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- Object Number
- 1943.50.22
- Title
- Large Chisel-Like Jade Tablet
- Classification
- Ritual Implements
- Work Type
- chisel
- Date
- 770 BCE - 221 BCE (?)
- Places
- Creation Place: East Asia, China
- Period
- Zhou dynasty, Eastern Zhou period, 770-256 BCE
- Culture
- Chinese
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/205192
- Physical Descriptions
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- Medium
- Brown nephrite with light brown markings
- Dimensions
- 25.7 x 10.5 x 0.8 cm (10 1/8 x 4 1/8 x 5/16 in.)
unspecified: 511 g
- Published Text
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- 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. 338 by Max Loehr:
338 Large Chisel-like Tablet
Brown jade with light brown markings, fashioned into a broad rectangular slab with a beveled, blunt edge. The butt end is deprived of it supper right corner, which was probably fractured and subsequently ground smooth. The conical perforation is drilled from the upper surface; the same surface shows a long, slightly curved saw ledge near the right margin. Eastern Chou(?). - Acquisition and Rights
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- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop
- Accession Year
- 1943
- Object Number
- 1943.50.22
- Division
- Asian and Mediterranean Art
- Contact
- am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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- Publication History
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Max Loehr and Louisa G. Fitzgerald Huber, Ancient Chinese Jades from the Grenville L. Winthrop Collection in the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1975), cat. no. 338, p. 226
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