1943.50.103: Plain Jade Handle
Ritual ImplementsIdentification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1943.50.103
- Title
- Plain Jade Handle
- Classification
- Ritual Implements
- Work Type
- handle
- Date
- c. 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/204957
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Highly translucent, light gray nephrite with bluish black specks and whitish clouds
- Dimensions
-
15.3 x 3.9 x 0.4 cm (6 x 1 9/16 x 3/16 in.)
unspecified: 57 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. 242 by Max Loehr:
242 Plain Handle
Highly translucent, light gray stone with bluish black specks and whitish clouds. As in the case of No. 239, the concave upper section is marked off from the adjoining parts by simple, incised grooves. Seen from the side, the top art tapers off to a thin edge. Near the shapeless lower edge of the tapering trunk is a slightly conical hole. Western Chou or later.
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop
- Accession Year
- 1943
- Object Number
- 1943.50.103
- Division
- Asian and Mediterranean Art
- Contact
- am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
- Permissions
-
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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 (Cambridge, MA, Fogg Art Museum, 1975)., cat. no. 242, p. 185
- Jenny So, Early Chinese Jades in the Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2019), pp. 130-32, cat. 14A
Verification Level
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