1943.50.121: Ornate Jade Handle
Ritual ImplementsIdentification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1943.50.121
- Title
- Ornate Jade Handle
- Classification
- Ritual Implements
- Work Type
- handle
- Date
- 12th-11th century BCE
- Places
- Creation Place: East Asia, China
- Period
- Shang dynasty, c. 1600-c. 1050 BCE
- Culture
- Chinese
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/205227
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Mottled, light gray-green opaque stone
- Dimensions
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H. 12.2 x W. 2.4 x D. 0.9 cm (4 13/16 x 15/16 x 3/8 in.)
Weight 87 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. 112 by Max Loehr:
112 Ornate Handle
Sturdy, prismatic body of mottled, light gray-green opaque stone. The upper part consists of a tectiform bar on top of a section with concave sides, banded in the middle by two thin ridges. The lower part, which tapers slightly toward the bottom, is decorated with four super-posed leaves or scales rising up along each of the edges. Each tier is separated from the one adjacent to it by grooves running up the center of each side. These central grooves cut through the two ridges of the base of the handle. The tip is an inverted, truncate pyramid. Shang.
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop
- Accession Year
- 1943
- Object Number
- 1943.50.121
- 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. 112, p. 106
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