Zoomorphic pendant / Artist Unknown, China
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Record Details
- Accession Number
- 1960/2.95
- Title
- Zoomorphic pendant
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, China
- Medium and Support
- creamy green nephrite with black streaks
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1300 BCE - circa 1100 BCE
- Object Creation Place
- Asia (continent)
- China (nation)
- Henan (province)
- Creation Place 1
- Asia (continent)
- Creation Place 2
- China (nation)
- Creation Place 3
- Henan (province)
- Credit Line
- Museum purchase from the collection of Max Loehr
- Style/Group/Movement
- hardstone
- Dimensions
- 7.5 cm x 5.5 cm x 0.5 cm (2 15/16 in. x 2 3/16 in. x 3/16 in.)
- Century
- 16th-11th century BCE
- Primary Object Classification
- Jewelry
- Primary Object Type
- pendant
- Secondary Object Classification
- Hardstone
- Secondary Object Type
- jade
- Physical Description
- jade pendent with zoomorphic design, with abstract representation of animal form, possibly a bird. Notchs on the edge and worn relief carvings on the surface indicate that the pendant was probably recarved from a broken jade object from an earlier era.
- Subject Matter
- Jade pendent with zoomorphic design, with abstract representation of animal form, possibly a bird. Such pendants are frequently encountered in Shang elite tombs in the second half of the sencond millennium B.C. in the Central Plains, China. Notchs on the edge and worn relief carvings on the surface indicate that the pendant was probably recarved from a broken jade object from an earlier era, possibly a ceremonial blade from the coastal prehistoric Longshan society of the third millennium
- Secondary Keywords
- animals
- locality
- objects of adornment
- objects we use
- sculpture
- sculpture by material
- the natural world
- visual works
- visual works by medium or technique
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Technical Details
- Collection
- University of Michigan Museum of Art
- Image Size
- 1073 x 749
- File Size
- 53 KB
- Record
- 1960/2.95
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"Zoomorphic pendant; Artist Unknown, China." In the digital collection University of Michigan Museum of Art. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-1960-sl-2.95/1960_2.95obv.jpg. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 10, 2024.