Narrow Jade 'Huang' Disk Segment with Notched Ends

Identification and Creation

Object Number: 1943.50.171
Title: Narrow Jade 'Huang' Disk Segment with Notched Ends
Classification: Ritual Implements
Work Type: pendant
Date: late Western Zhou, 9th - 8th century BCE
Places: Creation Place: East Asia, China
Period: Zhou dynasty, Western Zhou period, c. 1050-771 BCE
Culture: Chinese
Persistent Link: https://hvrd.art/o/205283

Physical Descriptions

Medium: Mottled light green translucent nephrite with whitish speckles
Dimensions: H. 9.5 x W. 1.8 x D. 0.6 cm (3 3/4 x 11/16 x 1/4 in.)
Weight 29 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. 327 by Max Loehr:

327 Huang, Narrow Disk Segment with Notched Ends
Mottled light green translucent jade with whitish speckles, shaped into a segment with unevenly finished biconvex faces. The notches at either end are similar to those of Nos. 325 and 326, but are less regularly fashioned. The ends are perforated near the outer perimeter. Both sides are decorated with the same design: vaguely zoomorphic heads in profile placed at the ends are linked with _S_-shaped limbs and with snake-like bodies, which are intertwined in the center of the segment. The double outlines of the design are composed of sloping cuts and incised lines. Late Western Chou.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

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

Accession Year

1943

Object Number

1943.50.171

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. 327, p. 219

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