Ornate Jade Openwork Segment | Harvard Art Museums

Identification and Creation

Object Number: 1943.50.367
Title: Ornate Jade Openwork Segment
Classification: Ritual Implements
Work Type: pendant
Date: 475 BCE - 221 BCE
Places: Creation Place: East Asia, China
Period: Zhou dynasty, Warring States period, 475-221 BCE
Culture: Chinese
Persistent Link: https://hvrd.art/o/203250

Physical Descriptions

Medium: Whitish, almost transparent nephrite
Dimensions: 8.1 x 2.5 x 0.2 cm (3 3/16 x 1 x 1/16 in.)
unspecified: 9 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. 491 by Max Loehr:

491 Ornate Openwork Segment
This delicate piece, carved of whitish, almost transparent jade, involves a design separated into two concentric zones. The outer zone is an animal-headed segment with curls in low relief, while the inner zone shows an openwork symplegma of a feline with turned head and sinuous body, flanked by snakes. The arc spans only 75 degrees. In the outer zone are two perforations, one in the middle and one off center. At one end the jade is encrusted with bronze oxide. Late Eastern Chou.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

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

Accession Year

1943

Object Number

1943.50.367

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. 491, p. 334

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