1943.50.295: Jade Fish Monster with Pick
Ritual ImplementsIdentification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1943.50.295
- Title
- Jade Fish Monster with Pick
- Classification
- Ritual Implements
- Work Type
- pendant
- Date
- possibly 1100 - 771 BCE
- Places
- Creation Place: East Asia, China
- Period
- Zhou dynasty, Western Zhou period, c. 1050-771 BCE
- Culture
- Chinese
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/204786
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Translucent light green nephrite
- Dimensions
-
H. 6 x W. 1.5 x D. 0.4 cm (2 3/8 x 9/16 x 3/16 in.)
Weight 6 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. 296 by Max Loehr:
296 Fish Monster with Pick
Translucent light green jade fish silhouette, whose outline and broad tail are a quadruped’s—despite the fins. From the rather shapeless tail projects a pick, which tapers off to a sharp point. There is a small perforation at the mouth. Western Chou(?).
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop
- Accession Year
- 1943
- Object Number
- 1943.50.295
- 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. 296, p. 207
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