Elephant & Rider Vessel

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Artist Unknown Chinese

CultureChinese

Titles

Elephant & Rider Vessel

Date18th century

Made inChina

MediumJade

DimensionsOverall (assembled): 5 × 6 1/4 × 1 3/4 in. (12.7 × 15.9 × 4.4 cm)

Credit LineBequest of Charlene Quitter Thompson

Object number2013.470.A-.C

Non exposé

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Department

Asian Art

Object Type

STONE CARVING, SHELL & IVORY

ProvenanceLibby Johnson Moody, Galveston, Texas; Charlene Q. Thompson, Houston, Texas; The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Published References S. Bernstein, Collecting Chinese Jade, San Francisco, 1995, p.58-70. Angus Forsyth, Brian McElney, Jades From China, Bath, 1994, p. 380-388. Howard Hollis, “Department of Oriental Art: Chinese Ceramics and Jades,” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art, Vol. 29, No. 9, (Nov. 1942), p. 150, 152-157. Alex Kerr, Immortal Images: The Jade Collection of Margaret and Trammell Crow, Dallas, 1989, p. 64-67. The Minnesota Museum of Art, Jade as Sculpture, 1975, no. 41, 60, 86, 89, 93, 95, 100, 102, 109. James C.Y. Watt, Chinese Jades from Han Ch’ing, New York, 1980, no. 228-229, p. 224. Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks

[no inscription]

[not signed]

Stickers on bottom of Elephant: LIBBIE MOODY THOMPSON / COLLECTION and red circle sticker
Sticker on bottom of Rider: FC 5553 / KLXX
Sticker on bottom Stand: LIBBIE MOODY THOMPSON / COLLECTION

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