Jade Pig (one of a pair) | Harvard Art Museums

Identification and Creation

Object Number: 1943.50.253
Title: Jade Pig (one of a pair)
Classification: Ritual Implements
Work Type: figurine
Date: 25 CE - 220 CE
Places: Creation Place: East Asia, China
Period: Han dynasty, Eastern Han period, 25-220 CE
Culture: Chinese
Persistent Link: https://hvrd.art/o/205017

Physical Descriptions

Medium: Highly translucent pale green and opaque cream-colored nephrite
Dimensions: 9.3 x 2.4 x 2.3 cm (3 11/16 x 15/16 x 7/8 in.)
unspecified: 129 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. 556a by Max Loehr:

556 Pair of Pigs
Highly translucent pale green and opaque cream-colored jade. Prismatic pieces rounded off along the animals’ backs but flat at the rear and bottom. The pieces are schematically carved with sloping cuts and are polished except for the bottoms, the left side of a and the right side of b. The unfinished state of the two sides might indicate that the animals were intended to be placed side by side. On the whole similar to the preceding pair, with perforations in the same places. Probably Eastern Han.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

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

Accession Year

1943

Object Number

1943.50.253

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. 556a, p. 388

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