Jade Oval Plaquette | Harvard Art Museums

Identification and Creation

Object Number: 1943.50.364
Title: Jade Oval Plaquette
Classification: Ritual Implements
Work Type: ornament
Date: late 19th cent. - early 20th cent.
Places: Creation Place: East Asia, China
Period: Qing dynasty, 1644-1911
Culture: Chinese
Persistent Link: https://hvrd.art/o/203608

Physical Descriptions

Medium: Mottled greenish and light brown nephrite
Dimensions: 4.3 x 3.2 x 0.5 cm (1 11/16 x 1 1/4 x 3/16 in.)
unspecified: 14 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. 611 by Max Loehr:

611 Oval Plaquette
Mottled greenish and light brown jade of inferior quality, shaped as a sharp-edged oval plaquette. One side is decorated with a symmetrically designed relief pattern of a cross with curly ends, surrounded by concentric rows of C -spirals in varying combinations. The reverse side is plain and coarsely smoothed. Eastern Han or Later.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

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

Accession Year

1943

Object Number

1943.50.364

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. 611, p. 420

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