Jade Pommel of a Sword | Harvard Art Museums

Identification and Creation

Object Number: 1943.50.575
Title: Jade Pommel of a Sword
Classification: Ritual Implements
Work Type: ornament
Date: 3rd cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE
Places: Creation Place: East Asia, China
Period: Warring States period (475-221 BCE) to Western Han period (206 BCE-9 CE)
Culture: Chinese
Persistent Link: https://hvrd.art/o/204586

Physical Descriptions

Medium: Pale brownish green and bone-colored stone of medium translucency
Dimensions: 0.6 x 4.8 cm (1/4 x 1 7/8 in.)
unspecified: 20 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. 459 by Max Loehr:

459 Pommel of a Sword
Pale brownish green and bone-colored stone of medium translucency but inferior hardness. The disk-shaped piece has a large umbo, which is decorated with an incised whorl made up of four C -spirals. Enclosing the umbo is an inward-sloping zone with spiral curls in relief. On the reverse side is a smaller boss with two slanting perforations that join to form a tunnel; this boss is surrounded by a concave zone. 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

1943.50.575

Division

Asian and Mediterranean Art

Contact

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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. 459, p. 312

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