Jade Disk with Curly Appendages | Harvard Art Museums

Identification and Creation

Object Number: 1943.50.582
Title: Jade Disk with Curly Appendages
Classification: Ritual Implements
Work Type: ornament
Date: probably 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/204643

Physical Descriptions

Medium: Gray-green and creamy light brown, largely opaque nephrite
Dimensions: 0.5 x 5.4 x 2.9 cm (3/16 x 2 1/8 x 1 1/8 in.)
unspecified: 9 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. 512 by Max Loehr:

512 Small Disk with Curly Appendages
Gray-green and creamy light brown, largely opaque jade of inferior quality. The plain surface and the saw marks terminating on both sides suggest that the piece is unfinished. It consists of a disk with a slightly conical bore-hole and with paired but not quite symmetrical appendages that curl downward from diametrical points on the perimeter. Probably 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

1943.50.582

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. 512, p. 345

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