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Asian Art
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Bowl with Plum Blossoms and Poem
17th century
Porcelain with cobalt blue under clear glaze
2 × 3 1/2 in. (5.08 × 8.89 cm)
Wayland Wells Williams, B.A. 1910, Collection, Gift of Mrs. Frances Wayland Williams
1949.286
Geography:
China
Status:
On view
Culture:
Chinese
Period:
Ming dynasty (1368–1644)
Classification:
Containers - Ceramics
Provenance:
Purchased in 1943 by the Wayland Wells Williams (1888–1945) Collection, New Haven, Conn.; Mrs. Frances Wayland Williams; gift in 1949 to the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.
Bibliography:
George J. Lee, Selected Far Eastern Art in the Yale University Art Gallery (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1970), 165–166, no. 329, ill.
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