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Mythical Creature Bixie

1st century B.C.E.–1st century C.E.

White Jade (nephrite)

2 3/8 x 3 1/4 x 1 3/4 in. (6 x 8.3 x 4.5 cm)
Hobart and Edward Small Moore Memorial Collection, Gift of Mrs. William H. Moore
1953.27.19
Culture: 
Chinese
Period: 
Western Han dynasty (206 B.C.E.–8 C.E.)
Classification: 
Sculpture
Geography: 
China
Status: 
On view
Provenance: 

Lai-yuan and Co., New York, 1917

Bibliography: 

Alfred Salmony, 3000 Years of Chinese Jade, exh. cat. (New York: Arden Galleries, 1939), 83, ill.

George J. Lee, Selected Far Eastern Art in the Yale University Art Gallery (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1970), 15, no. 19, ill.

Mimi Gardner Gates, The Communion of Scholars: Chinese Art at Yale, exh. cat. (New York: China House Gallery, 1982), 47–49, no. 15, ill.

Handbook of the Collections, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1992), 287, ill.

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