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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1943.50.454
Title
Large Jade Belt Hook
Classification
Ritual Implements
Work Type
ornament
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/204733

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Opaque, bone-colored stone, partially decomposed
Dimensions
L. 20.9 x W. 1.9 cm (8 1/4 x 3/4 in.)
unspecified: 164 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. 468 by Max Loehr:

468 Large Belt Hook
Opaque, bone-colored stone, which as decomposed in part, forming chinks and cavities. The sturdy, curved body is squarish in cross-section. On the underside, its edges are beveled from the button toward the hook. The button, flush with the sides, is rectangular. The hook proper represents a severely simplified animal head with marginal ridges on top. On the upper side, the objects is decorated with a longitudinal convex ridge flanked by hollow-ground ledges. Three angular transverse channels interrupt the longitudinal pattern. 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
1943.50.454
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. 468, p. 319

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