SPECIAL ADVISORY: The Yale University Art Gallery is free and open to the public from Tuesday through Sunday. Masks and COVID-19 vaccination (including booster, if eligible) are required.Review our Visitor Policies
Asian Art
PrevNext1 of 4
Photo credit: Yale University Art Gallery
PrevNext2 of 4
Photo credit: Yale University Art Gallery
PrevNext3 of 4
Photo credit: Yale University Art Gallery
PrevNext4 of 4
Photo credit: Yale University Art Gallery
Explore image in Brush washer with plum
17th century
Jade (nephrite)
2 1/4 × 5 1/4 in. (5.7 × 13.3 cm)
Edward H. Dunlap, B.A. 1934, Fund
1984.19a-b
Geography:
China
Status:
Not on view
Culture:
Chinese
Period:
Ming dynasty (1368–1644)
Classification:
Containers - Stone
Provenance:
Purchased by the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn., 1984
Bibliography:
David Ake Sensabaugh, The Scholar as Collector: Chinese Art at Yale, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 2004), 45, no. 59.
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.
Denise Patry Leidy, “Chinese Jades: Selections from the Yale University Art Gallery,” Arts of Asia (May–June 2020): 27, fig. 14,15.
Note: This electronic record was created from historic documentation that does not necessarily reflect the Yale University Art Gallery’s complete or current knowledge about the object. Review and updating of such records is ongoing.
