Jade 'Huang' Segment with Plastic Curls

Identification and Creation

Object Number: 1943.50.608
Title: Jade 'Huang' Segment with Plastic Curls
Classification: Ritual Implements
Work Type: pendant
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/204663

Physical Descriptions

Medium: Greenish brown, much calcified nephrite
Dimensions: 9.9 x 2.1 x 0.4 cm (3 7/8 x 13/16 x 3/16 in.)
unspecified: 21 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. 481 by Max Loehr:

481 Huang, Segment with Plastic Curls
Greenish brown, much calcified jade. The segment forms an arc of about 110 degrees and is covered on both sides with a dense array of individually and diversely shaped plastic spirals whose placement is not determined by a grid pattern. At each end there appears a larger spiral that may suggest the mouth of a zoomorphic head such as seen in No. 482. The outline of the ends and of the adjoining upper and lower edges is crenelated. There is a single, small drill-hole in the middle. 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

1943.50.608

Division

Asian and Mediterranean Art

Contact

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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. 481, p. 329

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