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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1943.50.603.A-C
Title
Jade Disk in Three Segments
Classification
Ritual Implements
Work Type
disk
Date
15th cent. BCE - 11 cent. BCE
Places
Creation Place: East Asia, China
Period
Shang dynasty (c. 1600-c. 1050 BCE) to Western Zhou period (c. 1050-771 BCE)
Culture
Chinese
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/204653

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Originally translucent, deep brownish green nephrite has mostly turned opaque ocher, while some areas show white, softened substance resulting from calcification
Dimensions
10.5 cm (4 1/8 in.)
unspecified: 89 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. 93 by Max Loehr:

93 Disk in Three Segments
The originally translucent, deep brownish green stone has for the most part turned an opaque ocher, while some areas show the white, softened substance resulting from calcification. The three segments vary slightly in size, their arcs measuring about 117, 127, and 116 degrees. Near the adjoining edges of the three segments, conical holes have been drilled. Shang or Western Chou.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop
Accession Year
1943
Object Number
1943.50.603.A-C
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. 93, p. 91

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