1943.50.42: Jade Scepter
Ritual ImplementsIdentification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1943.50.42
- Title
- Jade Scepter
- Classification
- Ritual Implements
- Work Type
- scepter
- Date
- Longshan or Erlitou culture, c. 2000 BCE - c. 1700 BCE
- Places
- Creation Place: East Asia, China
- Period
- Neolithic period
- Culture
- Chinese
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/205201
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Black nephrite with faint markings
- Dimensions
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33.2 x 10.4 x 0.8 cm (13 1/16 x 4 1/8 x 5/16 in.)
unspecified: 376 g - Inscriptions and Marks
-
- Signed: inscription of fifteen large seal-script characters
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. 222 by Max Loehr:
222 Scepter
Black jade with faint markings. Broad, flaring blade with asymmetrical prongs and deeply concave upper edges sharpened on one face only. On both sides of the base of the blade jut out double projections, single projections, and long, descending spurs, each set being connected by parallel, slanting grooves. The tang, which is perforated, shows a slanting, double-beveled butt; its lower corner is broken off. On the face of the sharpened edge, just above the slanting grooves, there is an incised inscription of fifteen Large Seal characters, which is discussed in the section on inscriptions in the Introduction. Western Chou.
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop
- Accession Year
- 1943
- Object Number
- 1943.50.42
- Division
- Asian and Mediterranean Art
- Contact
- am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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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 (Cambridge, MA, Fogg Art Museum, 1975)., cat. no. 222, pp. 172-173
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