1943.50.133: Plain Jade Handle with a Gold Band
Ritual ImplementsIdentification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1943.50.133
- Title
- Plain Jade Handle with a Gold Band
- Classification
- Ritual Implements
- Work Type
- handle
- Date
- 16th-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/205231
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Greenish gray nephrite with whitish streaks; with gold leaf
- Dimensions
-
H. 8.9 x W. 2.1 x D. 0.4 cm (3 1/2 x 13/16 x 3/16 in.)
Weight 19 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. 116 by Max Loehr:
116 Plain Handle with a Gold Band
Flattish, rectangular piece of greenish gray nephrite with whitish streaks. Between the two ridges girding the contracted upper part is a band of gold leaf. The bottom of the sharp-corned, tapering trunk is irregularly beveled. Shang.
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop
- Accession Year
- 1943
- Object Number
- 1943.50.133
- 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. 116, p. 108
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