1943.50.331: Jade Statuette of a Kneeling Man
Ritual ImplementsIdentification 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
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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
- 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. 547, p. 382
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