Jade Segment-Shaped Pendant | Harvard Art Museums

Identification and Creation

Object Number: 1943.50.146
Title: Jade Segment-Shaped Pendant
Classification: Ritual Implements
Work Type: pendant
Date: 5th 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/204885

Physical Descriptions

Medium: Milky white nephrite with a greenish tinge
Dimensions: 8.2 x 2.2 x 0.9 cm (3 1/4 x 7/8 x 3/8 in.)
unspecified: 30 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. 493 by Max Loehr:

493 Segment-shaped Pendant
This piece of milky white jade with a greenish tinge has the shape of an approximately semicircular segment, wedge-shaped in cross-section and terminating in animal heads. At the apex is a suspension device in the form of symmetrical openwork scrolls. The surfaces are plain and highly polished. Late Eastern Chou or Western Han.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

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

Accession Year

1943

Object Number

1943.50.146

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. 493, p. 335

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