1942.185.192.A: Jade Cylindrical Brush Holder with Five Small Feet and with Decoration of Figures in a Mountainous Landscape
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1942.185.192.A
- Title
- Jade Cylindrical Brush Holder with Five Small Feet and with Decoration of Figures in a Mountainous Landscape
- Classification
- Artists' Tools
- Work Type
- brush holder
- Date
- late 18th century-19th century
- Places
- Creation Place: East Asia, China
- Period
- Qing dynasty, 1644-1911
- Culture
- Chinese
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/205407
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Dark green nephrite with black flects and gray veins (so-called spinach-green jade), the stone of Siberian origin, probably from the area around Lake Baikal
- Dimensions
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H. 15.1 × Diam. 17 cm (5 15/16 × 6 11/16 in.)
Thickness 1.6 cm (5/8 in.)
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Gift of Ernest B. and Helen Pratt Dane
- Accession Year
- 1942
- Object Number
- 1942.185.192.A
- Division
- Asian and Mediterranean Art
- Contact
- am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Publication History
- Illustrated Catalogue of an Extraordinary Collection of Imperial Jades and Other Beautiful Objects ... : mostly from the private collection of the late Captain J.F. Peel ... to be sold at unrestricted public sale by order of Messrs. Yamanaka & Co. .., auct. cat., American Art Association (New York, NY, 1912), no. 220 (illustrated with implements)
- Jenny So, Early Chinese Jades in the Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2019), pp. 20-21, fig. 1.4
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