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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1943.50.584
Title
Ornate Jade Disk
Classification
Ritual Implements
Work Type
disk
Date
25 CE - 220 CE (?)
Places
Creation Place: East Asia, China
Period
Han dynasty, Eastern Han period, 25-220 CE
Culture
Chinese
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/204644

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Light gray, nearly opaque and partly calcified stone
Dimensions
0.3 x 16.5 cm (1/8 x 6 1/2 in.)
unspecified: 205 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. 536 by Max Loehr:

536 Ornate Disk
Light gray, nearly opaque and partly calcified, thin stone disk, decorated with a debased “bucranium” motif repeated three times in the outer zone and with slightly elevated, indistinctly shaped hexagons with engraved spirals filling the inner zone. There is no rope-circle. Different from the designs described under Nos. 530, 531, 532, 533, 534, the band issuing from the three “bucraniums” end in bird heads. The long crests sweeping back from these bird heads cross those belonging to the birds of the adjoining units. But for a few wider grooves, the design is simply incised. The perforation, which is nearly cylindrical, is drilled from one side, the lower edge being left rough. Eastern Han(?).

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop
Accession Year
1943
Object Number
1943.50.584
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. 536, p. 373

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