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Sheath with Bird and Feline or Dragon

Jade Photography 2022
CC0 Public Domain Designation

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  • Jade Photography 2022

Date:

Warring States period to early Western Han dynasty, 3rd/2nd century B.C.

Artist:

China

About this artwork

Artists of China’s late Bronze Age achieved both technical mastery and visual sophistication in elegant objects like this jade sheath, designed to fit a small blade. Its fluid contours and subtle surface modeling are remarkable because they were achieved by slowly grinding down, drilling, and polishing the stone.

Status

On View, Gallery 132

Department

Arts of Asia

Title

Sheath with Bird and Feline or Dragon

Place

China (Object made in)

Date  Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.

300 BCE–100 BCE

Medium

Jade

Dimensions

10.6 × 5.7 × 0.5 cm (4 3/16 × 9 3/8 × 1/8 in.)

Credit Line

Through prior gifts of Mrs. Chauncey B. Borland, Lucy Maud Buckingham Collection, Emily Crane Chadbourne, Mary Hooker Dole, Edith B. Farnsworth, Mrs. Mary A. B. MacKenzie, Mr. and Mrs. Chauncey B. McCormick, Fowler McCormick, Mrs. Gordon Palmer, Grace Brown Palmer, Chester D. Tripp, Russell Tyson, H. R. Warner, Joseph Winterbotham, Mr. and Mrs. Edward Ziff

Reference Number

1987.141

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