Fluted Jade Coil with Animal Head
Ritual ImplementsChinese3rd-2nd century BCE

Fluted Jade Coil with Animal Head

3rd-2nd century BCE

Classification
Ritual Implements
Medium
Translucent gray and smoke-brown nephrite
Culture
Chinese
Period
Warring States period (475-221 BCE) to Western Han period (206 BCE-9 CE)
Century
3rd-2nd century BCE
Division
Asian and Mediterranean Art
Department
Department of Asian Art

Dimensions

Diam. 7.5 x W. 1.5 x Thickness 0.9 cm (2 15/16 x 9/16 x 3/8 in.) Weight 50 g

Provenance

Grenville L. Winthrop, New York (by 1943), bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1943.

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