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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1943.50.10
Title
Jade Axe-Shaped Tablet
Classification
Ritual Implements
Work Type
axe
Date
late 19th - early 20th century
Places
Creation Place: East Asia, China
Period
Qing dynasty, 1644-1911
Culture
Chinese
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/205222

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Gray translucent nephrite with russet veins and markings
Dimensions
H. 12.5 x W. 7.5 x D. 0.5 cm (4 15/16 x 2 15/16 x 3/16 in.)
Weight 103 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. 583 by Max Loehr:

583 Axe-shaped Tablet
Gray translucent jade with russet veins and markings. Flat slab with a shapeless, slanting butt and an asymmetrically curved cutting edge. A wide band of sunken spiral patterns and cross-hatched fields covers the upper half of both sides. There are three perforations: a neatly drilled conical one, above the ornament; a smaller one, drilled from the opposite side, and a third, fragmentary one, at the butt. Han or later.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop
Accession Year
1943
Object Number
1943.50.10
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. 583, p. 404

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