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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1943.50.567
Title
Jade Disk with Pattern of Plastic Curls
Other Titles
Alternate Title: pi
Classification
Ritual Implements
Work Type
disk
Date
475 BCE - 221 BCE
Places
Creation Place: East Asia, China
Period
Zhou dynasty, Warring States period, 475-221 BCE
Culture
Chinese
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/204584

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Buff and opaque nephrite with brown markings
Dimensions
0.5 x 8.7 cm (3/16 x 3 7/16 in.)
unspecified: 54 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. 390 by Max Loehr:

390 Disk with Pattern of Plastic Curls
Very similar to No. 389 and apparently cut from the same piece of stone. The two pieces do not, however, form a pair, because they differ in size. The curls of the present piece, moreover, are a little larger that those of No. 389. 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
1943.50.567
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 (Cambridge, MA, Fogg Art Museum, 1975)., cat. no. 390, p. 263

Verification Level

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