Jade Disk with Pattern of Plastic Curls

Identification and Creation

Object Number: 1943.50.590
Title: Jade Disk with Pattern of Plastic Curls
Classification: Ritual Implements
Work Type: disk
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/204291

Physical Descriptions

Medium: Grayish nephrite with opaque dark brown streaks
Dimensions: 0.4 x 8.5 cm (3/16 x 3 3/8 in.)
unspecified: 44 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. 386 by Max Loehr:

386 Disk with Pattern of Plastic Curls
Small disk fashioned of a grayish jade with opaque dark brown streaks at opposite arcs of the perimeter. The surface shows a slight degree of calcification, which as yet does not impair the translucency of the jade. Its painstaking finish and almost glossy polish compare with that of many items said to have been found at Chin-ts’un, Loyang, Honan. Later Eastern Chou.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

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

Accession Year

1943

Object Number

1943.50.590

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. 386, pp. 260-261

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