1943.50.180.A: Triangular Jade Plaque Shaped as a Bird (from a set of five plaques)
Ritual ImplementsIdentification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1943.50.180.A
- Title
- Triangular Jade Plaque Shaped as a Bird (from a set of five plaques)
- Classification
- Ritual Implements
- Work Type
- pendant
- Date
- possibly 1100 - 771 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/204881
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Buff, partly calcified nephrite
- Dimensions
-
H. 3.5 x W. 2.2 x D. 0.2 cm (1 3/8 x 7/8 x 1/16 in.)
Weight 2 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. 266 by Max Loehr:
266 Set of Five Triangular Plaques, Four Shaped as Birds
Buff, partly calcified jade. The birds are characterized as such by sparingly defined contours. Their surfaces are plain, not eve the eyes are marked. All of them are perforated near the feet. The smallest plaque is a plain triangle, also perforated. Western Chou(?).
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop
- Accession Year
- 1943
- Object Number
- 1943.50.180.A
- 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. 266a, p. 197
- Jenny So, Early Chinese Jades in the Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2019), pp. 258, 260, cat. 37B
Verification Level
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