1943.50.10: Jade Axe-Shaped Tablet
Ritual ImplementsIdentification 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
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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
- Permissions
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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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