1943.50.612: Fluted Jade Ring-Disk
Ritual ImplementsA jade disk that has been cut into a ring. The surface has been fluted so it looks like many ridges are twisting throughout the piece. It is pale green in color and it lays flat on a grey background.
Gallery Text
During the Warring States and Han periods, jades functioned not only as ritual and burial items, but also as objects of personal adornment for the living. Other luxury materials, such as gold, bronze, and glass began to be incorporated with jades with greater frequency.
Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1943.50.612
- Title
- Fluted Jade Ring-Disk
- Classification
- Ritual Implements
- Work Type
- ring
- Date
- 4th century BCE
- Places
- Creation Place: East Asia, China
- Period
- Zhou dynasty, Warring States period, 475-221 BCE
- Culture
- Chinese
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/204665
Location
- Location
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Level 1, Room 1740, Early Chinese Art, Arts of Ancient China from the Neolithic to the Bronze Age
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Pale green nephrite with whitish markings and a glossy polish
- Dimensions
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Diam. 7.5 x Thickness 0.5 cm (2 15/16 x 3/16 in.)
W. of ring 1.1 cm (7/16 in.)
Weight 28 g
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
- Grenville L. Winthrop, New York (by 1943), bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1943.
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. 477 by Max Loehr:
477 Fluted Ring-Disk
Pale green jade with whitish markings; glossy polish. The flattened body is fluted like a tightly twisted rope, with rounded grooves and sharp ridges. 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
- 1943.50.612
- Division
- Asian and Mediterranean Art
- Contact
- am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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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 (Cambridge, MA, Fogg Art Museum, 1975)., cat. no. 477, p. 327
- Jenny So, Early Chinese Jades in the Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2019), pp. 35-36, fig. 2.9a; pp. 244-5, cat. 33
Exhibition History
- Re-View: S228-230 Arts of Asia, Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, 05/31/2008 - 06/01/2013
- 32Q: 1740 Early China I, Harvard Art Museums, 11/16/2014 - 01/01/2050
Subjects and Contexts
- Google Art Project
Verification Level
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