Pendant in the Shape of a Phoenix | Yale University Art Gallery

3rd - 2nd century B.C.E.

On view, 2nd floor, Asian Art

Medium: Jade (nephrite), pale yellow-gray with brown flecking
Dimensions: 4 1/4 × 3/8 in. (10.8 × 1 cm)
Credit Line: Hobart and Edward Small Moore Memorial Collection, Gift of Mrs. William H. Moore
Accession Number: 1952.52.30
Geography: China
Culture: Chinese
Period: Eastern Zhou or (770–221 B.C.E.) Western Han (206 B.C.E-9 C.E)
Classification: Jewelry
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Provenance

Mrs. William H. Moore (1858–1955), New York; given to the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn., 1952

Bibliography

Denise Patry Leidy, "Chinese Jades: Selections from the Yale University Art Gallery," Arts of Asia (May–June 2020), 24, fig. 5

Elise K. Kenney, ed., Handbook of the Collections: Yale University Art Gallery (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1992), 286, ill

Ruth Spelman, The Arts of China: A Retrospective, exh. cat. (Greenvale, N.Y.: C.W. Post Art Gallery, 1977), 34, no. 35, ill

George J. Lee, Selected Far Eastern Art in the Yale University Art Gallery (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1970), 14, no. 17, ill

Alfred Salmony, Carved Jade of Ancient China (Berkeley, Calif.: Gillick Press, 1938), no. 1, pl. 43

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Object/Work type

pendants (jewelry)

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