1943.50.607: Jade Disk Segment with Acentric Perforation
Ritual ImplementsIdentification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1943.50.607
- Title
- Jade Disk Segment with Acentric Perforation
- Classification
- Ritual Implements
- Work Type
- disk
- Date
- c. 4000 BCE - c. 2000 BCE
- Places
- Creation Place: East Asia, China
- Period
- Neolithic period
- Culture
- Chinese
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/204287
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Pale green nephrite with russet markings and a dark brown spot
- Dimensions
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W. 2.4 x Chord 10.7 x Thickness 0.4 cm (15/16 x 4 3/16 x 3/16 in.)
38 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. 96 by Max Loehr:
96 Disk Segment with Acentric Perforation
Pale green jade with russet markings and a dark brown spot. The surfaces are smooth but uneven; traces of a rotating or oscillating saw, notably on the upper face, have not been completely worked off. The large, acentric conical hole that intersects with the rough-edged chord is flanked by two smaller ones which were drilled from both sides. Late Neolithic or Shang.
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop
- Accession Year
- 1943
- Object Number
- 1943.50.607
- 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. 96, p. 93
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