1943.50.9: Small Jade Dagger-Axe
Ritual ImplementsIdentification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1943.50.9
- Title
- Small Jade Dagger-Axe
- Other Titles
- Alternate Title: ko
- Classification
- Ritual Implements
- Work Type
- dagger-axe
- Date
- 16th-11th century BCE
- Places
- Creation Place: East Asia, China
- Period
- Shang dynasty, c. 1600-c. 1050 BCE
- Culture
- Chinese
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/199178
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Heavily calcified, ivory-colored nephrite with sparse cinnabar stains
- Dimensions
-
H. 17.2 x W. 5.8 x D. 0.5 cm (6 3/4 x 2 5/16 x 3/16 in.)
Weight 89 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. 32 by Max Loehr:
32 Small Dagger-Axe
Heavily calcified, ivory-colored jade with sparse cinnabar stains. Crested blade, slightly hollow-ground between the median crest and the broad bevel along the edges. The bevel extends through the tang, which is set off by the smallest recess. A perforation is drilled from one side, in such a way that it straddles the blade and tang. Shang.
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop
- Accession Year
- 1943
- Object Number
- 1943.50.9
- Division
- Asian and Mediterranean Art
- Contact
- am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
- Permissions
-
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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. 32, p. 56
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