Serrated Oblong Jade Tablet | Harvard Art Museums

Identification and Creation

Object Number: 1943.50.200
Title: Serrated Oblong Jade Tablet
Classification: Ritual Implements
Work Type: handle
Date: probably 11th cent. BCE - 771 BCE
Places: Creation Place: East Asia, China
Period: Zhou dynasty, Western Zhou period, c. 1050-771 BCE
Culture: Chinese
Persistent Link: https://hvrd.art/o/204911

Physical Descriptions

Medium: Light creamy brown, mildly translucent nephrite, smoothly polished
Dimensions: 14 x 22 x 0.5 cm (5 1/2 x 8 11/16 x 3/16 in.)
unspecified: 26 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. 337 by Max Loehr:

337 Serrated Oblong Tablet
Light creamy brown, mildly translucent jade, smoothly polished. The tablet has a median crest on both sides. Its edges are beveled and notched like a sequence of fish tails. Far from the middle point the sequence is interrupted by a pair of hooks bending inward. The shorter portion beyond these hooks was either left in a fragmentary state or irregularly finished; one tip of the larger portion is broken off. The shorter end is perforated. Presumably Western Chou.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

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

Accession Year

1943

Object Number

1943.50.200

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. 337, p. 223

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