Plain Jade Handle with a Gold Band

Identification 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

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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. 116, p. 108

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