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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1943.50.83
Title
Axe-Shaped Jade Tablet
Classification
Ritual Implements
Work Type
axe
Date
c. 4000 BCE - c. 2000 BCE
Places
Creation Place: East Asia, China
Period
Neolithic period
Culture
Chinese
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/204950

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Dark green, fairly translucent stone with light gray and gold-brown markings
Dimensions
16 x 8.6 x 0.5 cm (6 5/16 x 3 3/8 x 3/16 in.)
unspecified: 146 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. 187 by Max Loehr:

187 Axe-shaped Tablet
Dark green, fairly translucent stone with light gray and gold-brown markings. The thin, smoothly polished slab slopes to a sharp edge along both sides and along the bit. The butt is left in an unfinished state, with sawing grooves visible. One small and one large conical perforation, both of which are drilled from the same side, are placed on the middle axis. Beneath the larger hole a transverse groove runs between lateral notches. Two corners are broken off. Western Chou(?).

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop
Accession Year
1943
Object Number
1943.50.83
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. 187, p. 146

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