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  • Rhyton with Qilin Base
Dateearly 18th century
Made inChina
MediumJade
DimensionsOverall: 6 1/2 × 3 7/8 × 1 7/8 in. (16.5 × 9.9 × 4.8 cm)
Credit LineBequest of Charlene Quitter Thompson
Object number2013.483.A,.B
Non exposé

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Department
Asian Art
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]
[no marks]

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