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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1943.50.48
Title
Asymmetrical Jade Knife
Classification
Ritual Implements
Work Type
knife
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/205276

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Translucent light green stone with large, opaque buff-colored areas
Dimensions
39 x 8 x 0.8 cm (15 3/8 x 3 1/8 x 5/16 in.)
unspecified: 474 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. 342 by Max Loehr:

342 Asymmetrical Knife
Translucent light green stone with large, opaque buff-colored areas. The surface is unusually rough and dull. The blade resembles the trapezoidal knives, but narrows toward the left end. Of the three conical perforations along the back, two are drilled from the upper surface, and one from below; the fourth perforation, placed along the median near the right end, is also drilled from below. The lower edge is left blunt. Eastern Chou(?).

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop
Accession Year
1943
Object Number
1943.50.48
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. 342, p. 229

Verification Level

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