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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1943.50.570
Title
Small Jade Disk with Pattern of Plastic Curls
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/204610

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Greenish gray translucent nephrite with brown and dark brown markings
Dimensions
0.5 x 7.4 cm (3/16 x 2 15/16 in.)
unspecified: 50 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. 385 by Max Loehr:

385 Small Disk with Pattern of Plastic Curls
Greenish gray translucent jade with brown and dark brown markings. The disk is unevenly thick, and its outer edge only approximates a circular shape. Its surfaces are decorated with plastic curls arranged in chordal rows; the interstitial areas are ground smooth and even. Obviously the technique of carving out the relief curls differs from that seen in Nos. 352, 353, 354, 355, 356, which appear to be earlier than the present example. Glossy polish. 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
1943.50.570
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. 385, p. 260

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