1943.50.443.B: Arc-Shaped Jade Dragon (one of a pair)
Ritual ImplementsIdentification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1943.50.443.B
- Title
- Arc-Shaped Jade Dragon (one of a pair)
- 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/204765
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Light green nephrite with light brown spots
- Dimensions
-
4 x 12.1 x 0.5 cm (1 9/16 x 4 3/4 x 3/16 in.)
unspecified: 26 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. 433 by Max Loehr:
433 Pair of Arc-shaped Dragons
Carved of evenly light green jade with light brown spots, these objects are shaped almost symmetrically, the turned heads being echoed, and balanced, by the upturned tails, while the fin-like appendages on either side of the lower edges plainly mirror each other. The bodies are covered with spirals in flat relief, while the appendages and tails are grooved lengthwise. Perforations at top center. Later Eastern Chou.
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop
- Accession Year
- 1943
- Object Number
- 1943.50.443.B
- 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. 433b, p. 296
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