Ornate Jade Disk | Harvard Art Museums

Identification and Creation

Object Number: 1943.50.583
Title: Ornate Jade Disk
Classification: Ritual Implements
Work Type: disk
Date: 25 CE - 220 CE (?)
Places: Creation Place: East Asia, China
Period: Han dynasty, Eastern Han period, 25-220 CE
Culture: Chinese
Persistent Link: https://hvrd.art/o/204568

Physical Descriptions

Medium: Opaque, gray-brown and greenish stone
Dimensions: 0.4 x 14.3 cm (3/16 x 5 5/8 in.)
unspecified: 171 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. 537 by Max Loehr:

537 Ornate Disk
Similar to No. 535, this comparatively coarsely finished piece of opaque, gray-brown and greenish stone shows only two elongated bird figures in the outer zone. The zone of the hexagons is narrower and carved in a rude manner. Glossy surface. Small perforation. Eastern Han(?).

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

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

Accession Year

1943

Object Number

1943.50.583

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. 537, p. 374

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