Container in the Shape of a Ritual Grain Sever (Gui)

11th–12th century

Medium: Jade (nephrite)
Dimensions: 2 1/2 × 5 1/4 in. (6.3 × 13.3 cm)
Credit Line: Hobart and Edward Small Moore Memorial Collection, Bequest of Mrs. William H. Moore
Accession Number: 1955.4.177
Geography: China
Culture: Chinese
Period: Northern Song dynasty (960–1127)
Classification: Containers
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Provenance

A.W. Bahr Collection, New York, 1928; Bequest of Mrs. William H. Moore (1858–1955), New York; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.

Bibliography

Denise Patry Leidy, "Chinese Jades: Selections from the Yale University Art Gallery," Arts of Asia (May–June 2020), 25, fig. 9

George J. Lee, Selected Far Eastern Art in the Yale University Art Gallery (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1970), 15–16, no. 20, ill

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vessels

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