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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1943.50.166
Title
Jade Foot Measure
Classification
Tools and Equipment
Work Type
rule
Date
date uncertain
Places
Creation Place: East Asia, China
Culture
Chinese
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/205295

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Mottled bluish green jade, calcified and gray to bone in color
Dimensions
14.4 x 1.5 x 0.3 cm (5 11/16 x 9/16 x 1/8 in.)
unspecified: 18 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. 616 by Max Loehr:

616 Foot Measure
Flat tablet of mottled bluish green jade, now largely calcified and gray to bone in color. Engraved on one side are ten subdivisions; each of these is in turn subdivided ten times by marks, half o which lie along one edge and half of which lie along the other edge. The major divisions run clear across the tablet, while their half-divisions are marked by incisions longer than the small subdivisions. The half-divisions on the one side end in triangles, while those on the other have Y -shaped terminations. Another incised line runs the length of the entire piece, dividing it longitudinally into two equal parts; in the center where this line meets the fifth major transverse division there is a sort of swastika design. Broken. Date open.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop
Accession Year
1943
Object Number
1943.50.166
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. 616, p. 422

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