Small Oblong Jade Pendant | Harvard Art Museums

Identification and Creation

Object Number: 1943.50.138
Title: Small Oblong Jade Pendant
Classification: Ritual Implements
Work Type: pendant
Date: 770 BCE - 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/198965

Physical Descriptions

Medium: Opaque gray stone
Dimensions: 6.2 x 1.4 x 0.6 cm (2 7/16 x 9/16 x 1/4 in.)
unspecified: 10 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. 374 by Max Loehr:

374 Small Oblong Pendant
Slightly biconvex, longitudinally perforated piece of opaque gray stone. The wider faces are decorated with a dense relief pattern of S-, C-, and comma-shaped curlicues, some of which are symmetrically arranged. The pattern is divided into unevenly long fields by four transverse, obliquely striated bands. The silhouette is articulated by a regular pattern of notches. Early Easter Chou.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop

Accession Year

1943

Object Number

1943.50.138

Division

Asian and Mediterranean Art

Contact

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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, Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1975), cat. no. 374, p. 250

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