{"id":1976,"date":"2017-07-01T08:34:51","date_gmt":"2017-07-01T13:34:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ancientartpodcast.org\/blog\/?p=1976"},"modified":"2017-09-15T17:01:23","modified_gmt":"2017-09-15T22:01:23","slug":"chinese-jade-meaningful-materials-81","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ancientartpodcast.org\/blog\/chinese-jade-meaningful-materials-81\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese Jade &#8211; Meaningful Materials (81)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Chinese Jade \u2013  Meaningful Materials (81)\" width=\"525\" height=\"295\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7XHBRt_pLzY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1977\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1977\" style=\"width: 799px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1977\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.ancientartpodcast.org\/blog\/chinese-jade-meaningful-materials-81\/81-dragon-jade-1950-640-1950-641\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.ancientartpodcast.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/81-dragon-jade-1950.640-1950.641.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"799,612\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"81-dragon-jade-1950.640-1950.641\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.ancientartpodcast.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/81-dragon-jade-1950.640-1950.641-300x230.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.ancientartpodcast.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/81-dragon-jade-1950.640-1950.641.jpg\" class=\"wp-image-1977 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ancientartpodcast.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/81-dragon-jade-1950.640-1950.641.jpg\" alt=\"81-dragon-jade-1950.640-1950.641\" width=\"799\" height=\"612\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ancientartpodcast.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/81-dragon-jade-1950.640-1950.641.jpg 799w, https:\/\/www.ancientartpodcast.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/81-dragon-jade-1950.640-1950.641-300x230.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ancientartpodcast.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/81-dragon-jade-1950.640-1950.641-768x588.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1977\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Two Chinese Jade Dragon Pendants, c. 4th\/3rd century B.C., Art Institute of Chicago<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><!--http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/ancientartpodcast\/~5\/ug5NfJRLU9A\/81-chinese-jade-meaningful-materials.m4a--><\/p>\n<p>How do artists&#8217; choices of materials assign identity and meaning to works of art? How does meaning assign material? In this excerpt from one of my museum tours, I explore the meaningful material of Chinese jade \u2014 its symbolic and medicinal value, function, materiality, artistry, and poetic inspiration.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Features Works of Art:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Dragon Pendants<\/em><br \/>\nJade<br \/>\nChina, Eastern Zhou dynasty<br \/>\nWarring States period (c.480-221 BC)<br \/>\nc. 4th\/3rd century B.C.<br \/>\n9.2 x 16.8 x 0.7 cm (3 3\/5 x 6 3\/5 x 3\/10 in.)<br \/>\n8.6 x 16.5 x 0.6 cm. (6-1\/2 x 3-3\/8 x 1\/4 in.)<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.artic.edu\/aic\/collections\/artwork\/70115\" target=\"_blank\">Art Institute of Chicago, 1950.640<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.artic.edu\/aic\/collections\/artwork\/70117\" target=\"_blank\">Art Institute of Chicago, 1950.641<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1977,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[36,201,538,503,537,517],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.ancientartpodcast.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/81-dragon-jade-1950.640-1950.641.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7RFIB-vS","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientartpodcast.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1976"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientartpodcast.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientartpodcast.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientartpodcast.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientartpodcast.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1976"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientartpodcast.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1976\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1984,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientartpodcast.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1976\/revisions\/1984"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientartpodcast.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientartpodcast.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientartpodcast.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientartpodcast.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}