1943.50.206: Jade Bird with Short Tail
Ritual ImplementsIdentification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1943.50.206
- Title
- Jade Bird with Short Tail
- Classification
- Ritual Implements
- Work Type
- pendant
- Date
- c. 1100 - 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/204914
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Opaque greenish gray, largely discolored nephrite
- Dimensions
-
H. 2.9 x W. 5 x D. 0.3 cm (1 1/8 x 1 15/16 x 1/8 in.)
Weight 7 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. 252 by Max Loehr:
252 Bird with Short Tail
Opaque greenish gray, largely discolored jade plaque, representing the silhouette of an aquatic, short-tailed bird. The large wings are set off by a grooved outline. Perforation at the breast. Western Chou.
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop
- Accession Year
- 1943
- Object Number
- 1943.50.206
- Division
- Asian and Mediterranean Art
- Contact
- am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
- Permissions
-
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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. 015, pp. 16-17
- Max Loehr and Louisa G. Fitzgerald Huber, Ancient Chinese Jades from the Grenville L. Winthrop Collection in the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University (Cambridge, MA, Fogg Art Museum, 1975)., cat. no. 252, pp. 190-191
Verification Level
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