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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1943.52.30.B
Title
Baluster-Shaped Chariot Pole End-Cap (One of a Pair)
Classification
Riding Equipment
Work Type
ornament
Date
5th-3rd century BCE
Places
Creation Place: East Asia, China
Period
Zhou dynasty, Warring States period, 475-221 BCE
Culture
Chinese
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/204297

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Cast bronze with gold and silver inlay and with yellow and blue glass inlay
Technique
Inlaid
Dimensions
H. 10.5 × Diam. 4.3 cm (4 1/8 × 1 11/16 in.)

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop
Accession Year
1943
Object Number
1943.52.30.B
Division
Asian and Mediterranean Art
Contact
am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Dorothy W. Gillerman, ed., Grenville L. Winthrop: Retrospective for a Collector, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, 1969), no. 046, pp. 46-47

Exhibition History

  • Re-View: S228-230 Arts of Asia, Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, 05/31/2008 - 06/01/2013

Verification Level

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