Jade Knife-Shaped Tablet | Harvard Art Museums

Identification and Creation

Object Number: 1943.50.110
Title: Jade Knife-Shaped Tablet
Classification: Ritual Implements
Work Type: ritual implement
Date: late 19th cent. - early 20th cent.
Places: Creation Place: East Asia, China
Period: Qing dynasty, 1644-1911
Culture: Chinese
Persistent Link: https://hvrd.art/o/204997

Physical Descriptions

Medium: Translucent, light gray-green stone with brown clouds
Dimensions: 28.5 x 7.7 x 0.4 cm (11 1/4 x 3 1/16 x 3/16 in.)
unspecified: 228 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. 586 by Max Loehr:

586 Knife-shaped Tablet
Approximately rectangular, flat slab of translucent, light ray-green stone with brown clouds. While this piece does not possess the characteristic trapezoidal form of the ancient knives described above, Nos. 203, 204, 205, 206, 207, 208, 209, 210, 211, 212, 213, 214, 215, 216, 217, 218, it nevertheless belongs to the same typological group in consideration of the two perforations along the back and of its cutting edge, which is straight and blunt. Post-Han(?).

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

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

Accession Year

1943

Object Number

1943.50.110

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. 586, p. 407

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