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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1943.50.131
Title
Heavy Trapezoidal Jade Plaque
Classification
Ritual Implements
Work Type
plaque, ritual
Date
770 - 476 BCE
Places
Creation Place: East Asia, China
Period
Zhou dynasty, Spring and Autumn period, 770-476 BCE
Culture
Chinese
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/205230

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Light green stone with whitish clouds
Dimensions
H. 7.1 x W. 6.9 x D. 1 cm (2 13/16 x 2 11/16 x 3/8 in.)
Weight 114 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. 379 by Max Loehr:

379 Heavy Trapezoidal Plaque
The light green stone with whitish clouds—a stone of far lesser hardness than nephrite—was cut into a slab of trapezium shape and perforated along the upper and lower edges. There are eight holes at the top and five at the bottom, drilled from both the back and the sides in such a way as to form tunnels below the rear edges. The decoration is limited to one side. It consists of three symmetrically arranged units of engraved curvilinear dragons or parts of dragons whose outlines are executed in double lines. Early Eastern Chou.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop
Accession Year
1943
Object Number
1943.50.131
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. 379, p. 253
  • Jenny So, Early Chinese Jades in the Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2019), pp. 178, 181-83, cat. 23C

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