Curator

  • Art Institute Chicago
  • Harvard art museum
  • My Exhibition
A pair of jade sculptures of very long, thin off-white fish. The top one faces the left and the bottom one faces the right. There are carved lines on the tops and bottoms or show fins. There are carved circles as eyes. There are small holes through the mouths.

Elongated Jade Fish Sihouette (one of a pair)

Chinese

Mildly translucent, light gray nephrite

Shang dynasty (c. 1600-c. 1050 BCE) to Western Zhou period (c. 1050-771 BCE)

Ritual Implements