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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1943.50.640
Title
Ornamental Jade Archer's Ring
Classification
Ritual Implements
Work Type
ring
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/204535

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Polished, translucent, pale greenish gray nephrite with buff, calcified spots
Dimensions
5 cm (1 15/16 in.)
unspecified: 13 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. 452 by Max Loehr:

452 Ornamental Archer’s Ring
Lustrously polished, translucent, pale greenish gray jade with buff, calcified spots. Like No. 453, the ring is unfit for practical use. Its exquisitely wrought décor consists of interlocked, modeled spirals on the upper face, and large incised spirals flanking a cross-hatched central field on the lower face. The spur is treated as a bird’s head. The pointed back of the ring shows a small, drilled tunnel. 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
1943.50.640
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. 452, p. 309

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