Jade Collared Disk | Harvard Art Museums

Identification and Creation

Object Number: 1943.50.535
Title: Jade Collared Disk
Classification: Ritual Implements
Work Type: disk
Date: 16th cent. BCE - 8th cent. BCE
Places: Creation Place: East Asia, China
Period: Shang dynasty (c. 1600-c. 1050 BCE) to Western Zhou period (c. 1050-771 BCE)
Culture: Chinese
Persistent Link: https://hvrd.art/o/204826

Physical Descriptions

Medium: Fine-grained nephrite of the color of old ivory, without any signs of calcification
Dimensions: 0.4 x 2.4 x 14.8 cm (3/16 x 15/16 x 5 13/16 in.)
unspecified: 168 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. 103 by Max Loehr:

103 Collared Disk
Disk with comparatively high collar around the inner edge. Fine-grained stone of the color of old ivory, without any signs of calcification. The surface is polished smooth and shiny. On the lower side, the collar dips, in what appears to be an original depression. On the same side of the disk are discernible very finely incised, concentric grooves, arranged in groups of three, in three divided bands. 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

1943.50.535

Division

Asian and Mediterranean Art

Contact

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Publication History

Dorothy W. Gillerman, ed., Grenville L. Winthrop: Retrospective for a Collector, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, 1969), no. 008, pp. 10-11
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. 103, p. 100

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