1943.50.473: Ornate Jade Crescent-Shaped Pendant
Ritual ImplementsIdentification 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
- 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. 492, p. 335
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