1943.50.571: Jade Disk with Dragon Figure in the Round
SculptureIdentification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1943.50.571
- Title
- Jade Disk with Dragon Figure in the Round
- Classification
- Sculpture
- Work Type
- sculpture
- 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/204542
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Deep yellow-brown, faintly translucent stone with cream-colored streaks
- Dimensions
-
3.1 x 8.2 cm (1 1/4 x 3 1/4 in.)
unspecified: 137 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. 540 by Max Loehr:
540 Disk with Dragon Figure in the Round
Deep yellow-brown, faintly translucent stone with cream-colored streaks. The disk, which on the underside is covered with a dense pattern of rounded dots, supports the full-round dragon-like figure conforming to the circular shape of the disk. The monster is a quadruped with a long bifurcated tail; its broad, angular, unprepossessing head juts out awkwardly over its thin, round neck; its shoulders and haunches seem overly voluminous in relation to its precariously attenuated, slick body. The animal moves stalking, as though with difficulty. Han or later.
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop
- Accession Year
- 1943
- Object Number
- 1943.50.571
- 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. 540, p. 377
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