1943.50.503: Jade 'Cong'
Ritual ImplementsIdentification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1943.50.503
- Title
- Jade 'Cong'
- Other Titles
- Alternate Title: ts'ung
- Classification
- Ritual Implements
- Work Type
- prism
- Date
- c. 1100 - 771 BCE
- Places
- Creation Place: East Asia, China
- Period
- Zhou dynasty, Western Zhou period, c. 1050-771 BCE
- Culture
- Chinese
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/204525
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Sea-green translucent nephrite with brownish clouds and dark brown veins
- Dimensions
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H. 13.2 x W. 6.3 x D. 6.3 cm (5 3/16 x 2 1/2 x 2 1/2 in.)
Weight 1092 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. 404 by Max Loehr:
404 Ts’ung
The object, made of sea-green translucent jade with brownish clouds and dark brown veins and cracks, has the shape of a perforated four-sided prism, the ends of which are transformed into octagonal walls. The perforation is drilled from both ends and rubbed smooth. Late(?) Eastern Chou.
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop
- Accession Year
- 1943
- Object Number
- 1943.50.503
- 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. 404, p. 276
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