Jade Eagle-headed Griffin | Harvard Art Museums

Identification and Creation

Object Number: 1943.50.234
Title: Jade Eagle-headed Griffin
Classification: Ritual Implements
Work Type: ornament
Date: 475 BCE - 221 BCE
Places: Creation Place: East Asia, China
Period: Zhou dynasty, Warring States period, 475-221 BCE
Culture: Chinese
Persistent Link: https://hvrd.art/o/205036

Physical Descriptions

Medium: Faintly translucent, mottled light brown and gray nephrite
Dimensions: 7 x 1.7 x 0.4 cm (2 3/4 x 11/16 x 3/16 in.)
unspecified: 9 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. 418 by Max Loehr:

418 Eagle-headed Griffin
Faintly translucent, mottled light brown and gray jade. The surfaces are plain and the piece is apparently unfinished. The slender body ends in a pointed hook. The figure is provided with wings; forelegs and hindlegs are drawn tightly toward the body. The aquiline head has a small perforation that reads as an eye. Late Eastern Chou.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

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

Accession Year

1943

Object Number

1943.50.234

Division

Asian and Mediterranean Art

Contact

am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu

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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. 418, p. 285

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