Jade Configuration of Dragon, Bird, and Snake, 4th cent. BC - 3rd cent. BC
Ornament
Chinese
, 4th-3rd century BC
Zhou dynasty, Warring States period, 475-221 BC
Creation Place:
China
Highly polished, translucent brown and honey-colored nephrite
13 x 7.8 x 0.5 cm (5 1/8 x 3 1/16 x 3/16 in.)
weight: 62 g
weight: 62 g
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop
, 1943.50.468
Department of Asian Art
, Bibliography
Max Loehr and Louisa G. Fitzgerald Huber, Ancient Chinese Jades from the Grenville L. Winthrop Collection in the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1975), cat. no. 427, p. 293
Kristin A. Mortimer, Harvard University Art Museums: A Guide to the Collections, Harvard University Art Museums/Abbeville Press (Cambridge, MA, New York, NY, 1985), Cat. #15 / pp. 22-23
Stephan Wolohojian, ed., Harvard Art Museum Handbook, Harvard Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 2008), pp. 14-15
Kristin A. Mortimer, Harvard University Art Museums: A Guide to the Collections, Harvard University Art Museums/Abbeville Press (Cambridge, MA, New York, NY, 1985), Cat. #15 / pp. 22-23
Stephan Wolohojian, ed., Harvard Art Museum Handbook, Harvard Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 2008), pp. 14-15
Exhibition History
Re-View: S228-230 Arts of Asia, Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, 05/31/2008 - 11/23/2008