Notched, Serrate Jade Slab | Harvard Art Museums

Identification and Creation

Object Number: 1943.50.531
Title: Notched, Serrate Jade Slab
Classification: Ritual Implements
Work Type: disk
Date: c. 2500 BCE - c. 1500 BCE
Places: Creation Place: East Asia, China
Period: Neolithic period to Shang dynasty
Culture: Chinese
Persistent Link: https://hvrd.art/o/204823

Physical Descriptions

Medium: Translucent stone in a relatively dark shade of celadon-green, becoming a greenish brown along the straight edge which has no teeth
Dimensions: Diam. 15.2 x Thickness 0.8 cm (6 x 5/16 in.)
187 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. 105 by Max Loehr:

105 Notched, Serrate Slab
Fairly heavy, irregularly quadrangular slab with a wide perforation and four quite irregular notches, some deep and some shallow. On three of the arcs are small serrations or “teeth” in sets of four. The stone is a translucent, relatively dark shade of celadon-green, becoming a greenish brown along the straight edge which has no teeth. The perforation seems to have been drilled from both sides and the interior surface then evened. Shang(?).

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop

Accession Year

1943

Object Number

1943.50.531

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. 105, p. 102
Jenny So, Early Chinese Jades in the Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2019), cat. no. 8A, pp. 96-99

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