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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1943.50.137
Title
Jade Arrowhead
Classification
Ritual Implements
Work Type
arrowhead
Date
12th-11th century BCE
Places
Creation Place: East Asia, China
Period
Shang dynasty, c. 1600-c. 1050 BCE
Culture
Chinese
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/205197

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Bone-colored nephrite with a few pale bluish green spots
Dimensions
H. 8 x W. 2.7 x D. 0.5 cm (3 1/8 x 1 1/16 x 3/16 in.)
Weight 13 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)

Entry by Max Loehr, :

86 Arrowhead
Bone-colored jade with a few pale bluish green spots. The surfaces are well polished and, despite calcification, still shiny. The head is leaf-shaped; it has sharp, beveled edges and a short stem that is rectangular in cross-section. Above the stem is a small biconical perforation, flanked by the grooves outlining a pointed median depression. Shang.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop
Accession Year
1943
Object Number
1943.50.137
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. 86, p. 83

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