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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1943.50.552
Title
Ornate Jade Disk
Classification
Ritual Implements
Work Type
disk
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/204577

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Dark green nephrite with light brown and russet spots
Dimensions
0.5 x 16.5 cm (3/16 x 6 1/2 in.)
unspecified: 312 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. 535 by Max Loehr:

535 Ornate Disk
This disk, made of dark green jade with light brown and russet spots, resembles the preceding type in that the décor is arranged in two concentric zones divided by a rope-ring, but differs with regard to the design of the outer zone. Instead of the “bucraniums” there appear, on both sides alike, three bird figures, elongated and in sweeping curves, executed by incisions and heavier grooves. The neatly carved hexagons are left plain. The perforation is unusually small and slightly conical. Western or Eastern Han.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop
Accession Year
1943
Object Number
1943.50.552
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. 535, p. 372

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