Chinese carved jade handle-shape

An image of Carving/Handle-shaped jade. Pale green opaque jade altered extensively to creamy white, carved in a handle-shape, decorated with striated design. Handle-shaped jades commonly appeared in tombs dating from the late Shang to the early Western Zhou, but this object is unlike any examples from tombs. Furthermore, it is too thick, particularly the edge. Nephrite, length 14.4 cm, width 2.85 cm, 1900-1940. Chinese.

Terms of use

These images are provided for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons License (BY-NC-ND). To license a high resolution version, please contact our image library who will discuss fees, terms and waivers.

Download this image

Creative commons explained - what it means, how you can use our's and other people's content.

Carving/Handle-shaped jade. Pale green opaque jade altered extensively to creamy white, carved in a handle-shape, decorated with striated design. Handle-shaped jades commonly appeared in tombs dating from the late Shang to the early Western Zhou, but this object is unlike any examples from tombs. Furthermore, it is too thick, particularly the edge. Nephrite, length 14.4 cm, width 2.85 cm, 1900-1940. Chinese.

Image data

Accession Number: O.14-1946
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/22.0
Focal length: 50
Camera: Canon EOS 5D
Photographer name: Michael Jones
Image height: 451 pixels
Image width: 1024 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.0 (Windows)
Filesize: 225.00kB
Exposure time: 1/125
ISO Speed: 100
Fnumber: 22/1
Captured: 2007:11:27 15:52:59

Key words

20th Century carved carving Fitz_AA handle handled jade nephrite

Citation for print

This page can be cited in the Harvard Bibliographic style using the text below:


            The Fitzwilliam Museum (2024)
            "Chinese carved jade handle-shape"
            Web page available at: https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/image/media-2138340942 Accessed: 2024-05-09 09:43:50

Citation for Wikipedia

To cite this page on Wikipedia you can use this code snippet:


            {{cite web|url=https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/image/media-2138340942
            |title=Chinese carved jade handle-shape
            |author=The Fitzwilliam Museum|accessdate=2024-05-09 09:43:50|publisher=The
            University of Cambridge}}

API call for this record

To call these data via our API (remember this needs to be authenticated) you can use this code snippet:

https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/api/v1/images/media-207208

Bootstrap HTML code for reuse

To use this as a simple code embed, copy this string:

<div class="text-center">
    <figure class="figure">
        <img src="https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa37/O_14_1946_1_200711_mfj22_dc2.jpg"
        alt="Carving"
        class="img-fluid" />
        <figcaption class="figure-caption text-info">Chinese carved jade handle-shape</figcaption>
    </figure>
</div>