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Identification and Creation

Object Number: 1943.50.551
Title: Large Glass Disk
Classification: Ritual Implements
Work Type: disk
Date: 3rd cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE
Places: Creation Place: East Asia, China
Period: Warring States period (475-221 BCE) to Western Han period (206 BCE-9 CE)
Culture: Chinese
Persistent Link: https://hvrd.art/o/204864

Physical Descriptions

Medium: Faintly greenish, almost colorless glass, the surface of which is coated with an unevenly creamy white and slightly irridescent substance, probably due to weathering and decomposition
Dimensions: 0.7 x 17.4 cm (1/4 x 6 7/8 in.)
unspecified: 563 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. 541 by Max Loehr:

541 Large Glass Disk
Faintly greenish, almost colorless glass, the surface of which is coated with an unevenly creamy white and slightly iridescent substance, probably due to weathering and decomposition. Both sides of the disk are covered with a pattern of raised dots on a grid of hexagons. Wide, flat margins; cylindrical hole. Western Han.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

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

Accession Year

1943

Object Number

1943.50.551

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. 541, p. 378

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