Jade Claw-Shaped Pendant | Harvard Art Museums

Identification and Creation

Object Number: 1943.50.343
Title: Jade Claw-Shaped Pendant
Classification: Ritual Implements
Work Type: pendant
Date: late Western Zhou, 9th cent. BCE - 8th cent. 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/205010

Physical Descriptions

Medium: Whitish, calcified nephrite
Dimensions: 6.2 x 1.4 x 0.2 cm (2 7/16 x 9/16 x 1/16 in.)

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. 330 by Max Loehr:

330 Claw-shaped Pendant
Flat, claw-shaped piece of whitish, calcified jade. The top part, with a small suspension loop projecting upward, is vaguely defined as an animal head in profile. Its eye is formed by a shallow circular depression; the remaining features are suggested by neatly incised single and double grooves. Such grooves also enliven the surfaces of the “body,” which resembles a bird’s wing rather that the body of an animal. Late Western Chou.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

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

Accession Year

1943

Object Number

1943.50.343

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. 330, p. 220

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