1943.51.2: Jade Spearhead in a Bronze Socket
Ritual ImplementsIdentification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1943.51.2
- Title
- Jade Spearhead in a Bronze Socket
- Classification
- Ritual Implements
- Work Type
- spearhead
- Date
- 12th cent. BCE - 11th cent. BCE
- Places
- Creation Place: East Asia, China
- Period
- Shang dynasty, c. 1600-c. 1050 BCE
- Culture
- Chinese
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/204588
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Nephrite blade; bronze socket inlaid with turquoise
- Technique
- Inlaid
- Dimensions
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24.8 x 5.8 x 0.5 cm (9 3/4 x 2 5/16 x 3/16 in.)
unspecified: 229 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. 85 by Max Loehr:
85 Jade Spearhead in a Bronze Socket
The blade of this object is the fore part of a ko or dagger-axe, shortened and mounted into the slot of a bronze socket with a heart-shaped head. Features such as a bent median ridge and outcurving lateral facets, as well the obviously ground-off base, make it certain that this blade is of a type different from the leaf-shaped blades, Nos. 82, 83, 84. The socket, which is heavier than in any of the preceding examples, is entirely covered with turquoise; the indistinctness of the inlay pattern is caused by the lack of cloisons. Shang.
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop
- Accession Year
- 1943
- Object Number
- 1943.51.2
- 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. 85, p. 83
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