Pair of Coupled Miniature Jade Dagger-Axes

Identification and Creation

Object Number: 1943.50.193
Title: Pair of Coupled Miniature Jade Dagger-Axes
Other Titles: Alternate Title: ko
Classification: Ritual Implements
Work Type: dagger-axe
Date: 16th cent. BCE - 11th cent. BCE
Places: Creation Place: East Asia, China
Period: Shang dynasty, c. 1600-c. 1050 BCE
Culture: Chinese
Persistent Link: https://hvrd.art/o/205024

Physical Descriptions

Medium: Bluish gray-green nephrite, showing signs of incipient calcification
Dimensions: 6.6 x 4 x 0.3 cm (2 5/8 x 1 9/16 x 1/8 in.)
unspecified: 14 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. 68 by Max Loehr:

68 Pair of Coupled Miniature Dagger-Axes
Bluish gray-green jade, showing signs of incipient calcification. The two curved, crested and hollow-ground, faceted blades are joined together along a short strip of the adjacent edges. Small drill-holes in the middle of the tangs. Shang.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

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

Accession Year

1943

Object Number

1943.50.193

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. 68, p. 74

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