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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1943.50.331
Title
Jade Statuette of a Kneeling Man
Classification
Ritual Implements
Work Type
figurine
Date
206 BCE - 9 CE (?)
Places
Creation Place: East Asia, China
Period
Han dynasty, Western Han period, 206 BCE-9 CE
Culture
Chinese
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/204816

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Pale green and creamy white, partly calcified nephrite
Dimensions
L. 4.1 x W. 1.3 cm (1 5/8 x 1/2 in.)
unspecified: 12 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. 547 by Max Loehr:

547 Statuette of a Kneeling Man
Pale green and creamy white, partly calcified jade. The slightly angular figure with a finely modeled face is dressed in a long coat with long sleeves, which leave the hands uncovered. The hands, too, are modeled with care, the thumbs stretched out, the fingers pointing downward. A dense array of folds formed by the sleeves, which swing back around the body, makes an interesting contrast with the plain surface of the rest of the garment. The man’s head is covered with a peculiar small cap that juts out over the neck. The person kneels on a square base resembling a seal, on the underside of which appears the figure of an antelope in intaglio. A perpendicular hole is drilled to the level of the knees, where it connects with two lateral holes which are oval in cross-section. Probably Western Han.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop
Accession Year
1943
Object Number
1943.50.331
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. 547, p. 382

Verification Level

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