Jade Garment Hook (one of a pair)

Identification and Creation

Object Number: 1943.50.378.B
Title: Jade Garment Hook (one of a pair)
Classification: Ritual Implements
Work Type: ornament
Date: 206 BCE - 220 CE (?)
Places: Creation Place: East Asia, China
Period: Han dynasty, 206 BCE-220 CE
Culture: Chinese
Persistent Link: https://hvrd.art/o/203681

Physical Descriptions

Medium: Dark olive-green nephrite with discolored buff areas
Dimensions: 8.6 x 2.2 x 2.4 cm (3 3/8 x 7/8 x 15/16 in.)
unspecified: 28 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. 577b by Max Loehr:

577 Pair of Garment Hooks
Dark olive-green jade with discolored buff areas and a glossy, smooth surface. The hooks consists of a flat rear extension, rectangular in cross-section, which terminates in a transverse rectangular projection perforated by a rectangular slot (wider in the back than in the front) and a longer, straight front bar, which is flat underneath and rounded off along the outside. The front bar has been ground down on the inside so that it slopes gracefully forward just as it approaches the tip. Where the hook bends, both the inner and outer surfaces are rounded off. Possibly Han.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

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

Accession Year

1943

Object Number

1943.50.378.B

Division

Asian and Mediterranean Art

Contact

am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu

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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. 577b, p. 399

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