Bird-shaped Zun on Wheels | Yale University Art Gallery

18th–19th century

Medium: Bronze inlaid with gold
Dimensions: 2 7/8 × 1 3/16 × 2 9/16 in. (7.3 × 3 × 6.5 cm)
Credit Line: Hobart and Edward Small Moore Memorial Collection, Gift of Mrs. William H. Moore
Accession Number: 1954.49.9
Geography: China
Culture: Chinese
Period: Qing dynasty (1644–1911)
Classification: Containers
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Provenance

Mrs. William H. Moore (1858–1955), New York, to 1954; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.

Bibliography

David Ake Sensabaugh, The Scholar as Collector: Chinese Art at Yale, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 2004), 13, 42, no. 11.

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