Ornate Jade Crescent-Shaped Pendant

Identification and Creation

Object Number: 1943.50.473
Title: Ornate Jade Crescent-Shaped Pendant
Classification: Ritual Implements
Work Type: pendant
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/204801

Physical Descriptions

Medium: Translucent greenish white nephrite
Dimensions: 9.1 x 3 x 0.4 cm (3 9/16 x 1 3/16 x 3/16 in.)
unspecified: 15 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. 492 by Max Loehr:

492 Ornate Crescent-shaped Pendant
Translucent greenish white jade. The segment terminates in animal heads whose muzzles form slightly upcurved, sharp points. The surfaces between these heads are filled with a pattern of incised, interlocked spirals. Along the lower edge of the segment there stretches an ornament of symmetrically arranged openwork scrolls. From the apex rises a similar but smaller ornament used for suspension. 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

1943.50.473

Division

Asian and Mediterranean Art

Contact

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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. 492, p. 335

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