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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1943.50.455
Title
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/204788

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Variegated olive-greenish, translucent nephrite with opaque, bone-colored areas
Dimensions
L. 10.3 x W. 3.5 cm (4 1/16 x 1 3/8 in.)
unspecified: 85 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. 465 by Max Loehr:

465 Belt Hook
Variegated olive-greenish, translucent jade with opaque, bone-colored areas. The body has the shape of an elongated rectangle that tapers toward the hook; its cross-section is rectangular, and its corners are rounded. The upper face of the body is decorated with plastic curls in a sunken field, which is framed by a hollow-ground border with five crisply cut notches. The notched border is incised with diagonal lines joined to small cross-hatched field. The hook is shaped as a feline head with trapezoidal outline; it is treated less sculpturally than the head on No. 462, which is altogether the more refined of the two pieces. The sides of the belt hook are decorated with spirals and cross-hatching. On the back, the lower end of the body shows a simplified animal mask while the tapering stem has S -curved lines with adjoining cross-hatched areas. The oval button, placed transversally, shows a simple, incised ornament of four C -shaped volutes surrounding an oval. 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
1943.50.455
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 (Cambridge, MA, Fogg Art Museum, 1975)., cat. no. 465, p. 317

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