1943.50.251: Jade Pig
Ritual ImplementsIdentification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1943.50.251
- Title
- Jade Pig
- Classification
- Ritual Implements
- Work Type
- figurine
- Date
- 25 CE - 220 CE
- Places
- Creation Place: East Asia, China
- Period
- Han dynasty, Eastern Han period, 25-220 CE
- Culture
- Chinese
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/205067
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Clear, pale green nephrite with whitish speckles
- Dimensions
-
10.9 x 2.5 x 2.6 cm (4 5/16 x 1 x 1 in.)
unspecified: 157 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. 558 by Max Loehr:
558 Pig
Clear, pale green jade with whitish speckles; surfaces, including bottom, polished to a glossy finish. The eyes are thinly incised in contrast to the broad, sloping cuts defining the ears and the limbs. Small perforations through the tail ridge and below the snout. Late Western or Eastern Han.
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop
- Accession Year
- 1943
- Object Number
- 1943.50.251
- 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. 558, p. 389
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