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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1943.50.316
Title
Heavy Jade Statuette of a Bearded Old Man
Classification
Ritual Implements
Work Type
figurine
Date
206 BCE - 220 CE (?)
Places
Creation Place: East Asia, China
Period
Han dynasty, 206 BCE-220 CE
Culture
Chinese
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/204808

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Mottled green and russet, faintly translucent stone
Dimensions
9.1 x 3.8 x 2.7 cm (3 9/16 x 1 1/2 x 1 1/16 in.)
unspecified: 143 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. 552 by Max Loehr:

552 Heavy Statuette of a Bearded Old Man
Mottled green and russet, faintly translucent stone. The figure has the cross-section of a quadrant and thus appears to have been made from a cylindrical block., the outside of which is the back of this figure. Its proportions differ greatly from the preceding pair, as the point of the beard comes down below the middle of the body. The verticality of the figure is interrupted only by a groove beneath the sleeves. The tips of the man’s shoes are indicated by two incised, concentric semicircles. A longitudinal perforation beginning at the top extends part way through the figure where it meets with two secondary holes drilled upwards from underneath each sleeve. Han or later.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop
Accession Year
1943
Object Number
1943.50.316
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. 552, p. 384

Verification Level

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