1942.185.147.A: Jade Ritual Blade
Weapons and Ammunition
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1942.185.147.A
- Title
- Jade Ritual Blade
- Classification
- Weapons and Ammunition
- Work Type
- knife
- Date
- 11th-10th century BCE
- Places
- Creation Place: East Asia, China
- Period
- Shang dynasty (c. 1600-c. 1050 BCE) to Western Zhou period (c. 1050-771 BCE)
- Culture
- Chinese
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/205413
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Mottled reddish brown nephrite; the stone of Central Asian origin, probably from Khotan
- Dimensions
- 38.4 x 17.7 cm (15 1/8 x 6 15/16 in.)
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Gift of Ernest B. and Helen Pratt Dane
- Accession Year
- 1942
- Object Number
- 1942.185.147.A
- Division
- Asian and Mediterranean Art
- Contact
- am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Publication History
- Jenny So, Early Chinese Jades in the Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2019), pp. 88, 90, fig. 2
Verification Level
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