Brush Washer with Plum Blossoms | Yale University Art Gallery

17th century

Not on view

Medium: Jade (nephrite)
Dimensions: 2 1/4 × 5 1/4 in. (5.7 × 13.3 cm)
Credit Line: Edward H. Dunlap, B.A. 1934, Fund
Accession Number: 1984.19a-b
Geography: China
Culture: Chinese
Period: Ming dynasty (1368–1644)
Classification: Containers
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Provenance

Purchased by the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn., 1984

Bibliography

Denise Patry Leidy, "Chinese Jades: Selections from the Yale University Art Gallery," Arts of Asia (May–June 2020), 27, fig. 14,15

Maggie Bickford and Mimi Gardner Gates, Bones of Jade, Soul of Ice : the Flowering Plum in Chinese Art (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1985), no. 87

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