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Jade Plaque
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About this work
This beautiful pair of late Eastern Zhou openwork jade plaques illustrate a level of creativity and technical achievement that was unequaled before or since. Taking the shape of a pair of fantastic creatures, they are at once tigerlike, rhinolike, and dragonlike. Their strong silhouettes are marked with shallow relief bands, and their subtly swelling embellished surfaces are finished to the same degree on both sides.
Cleveland Museum of Art’s own descriptionCredit lineJade Plaque, 475–221 BCE. China, Henan province, Eastern Zhou dynasty (770–256 BCE), Warring States period (475–221 BCE). Nephrite; overall: 22.5 x 8.9 cm (8 7/8 x 3 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund and the John L. Severance Fund, 1991.78.1
