Jade Collared Disk | Harvard Art Museums

Identification and Creation

Object Number: 1943.50.534
Title: Jade Collared Disk
Classification: Ritual Implements
Work Type: disk
Date: 12th cent. BCE - 11th cent. BCE
Places: Creation Place: East Asia, China
Period: Shang dynasty, c. 1600-c. 1050 BCE
Culture: Chinese
Persistent Link: https://hvrd.art/o/204825

Physical Descriptions

Medium: Greenish black stone with light gray streaks on one side
Dimensions: 0.3 x 1.3 x 9.6 cm (1/8 x 1/2 x 3 3/4 in.)
unspecified: 54 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. 98 by Max Loehr:

98 Collared Disk
Small, narrow disk with a collar around the inner edge. Greenish black stone with light gray streaks on one side. The collar projects on one side, while on the other side it is ground down to a low ledge. Slight depressions running tangentially on both sides of the disk give evidence of the laborious grinding process. Shang or Western Chou.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

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

Accession Year

1943

Object Number

1943.50.534

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, Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1975), cat. no. 98, p. 95
Jenny So, Early Chinese Jades in the Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2019), p. 116, fig. 1

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