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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1941.222
Title
Disk with Animals of the Four Directions
Classification
Ritual Implements
Work Type
ritual implement
Date
Han dynasty or later
Places
Creation Place: East Asia, China
Culture
Chinese
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/205560

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Semi-transluscent pale olive-green nephrite with brown patches
Dimensions
Diam. 10.5 × Thickness 0.5 cm (4 1/8 × 3/16 in.)
Diameter of hole 4 cm (1 9/16 in.)

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Gift of Grenville L. Winthrop, Class of 1886
Accession Year
1941
Object Number
1941.222
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. 298-301, cat. 44

Verification Level

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