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  • Set of Five Wine Cups
Date1736–1796
Made inChina
MediumJade
Dimensions1 3/8 × 2 1/8 in. diameter (3.5 × 5.3 cm)
Credit LineBequest of Charlene Quitter Thompson
Object number2013.465.1-.5
Non exposé

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Department
Asian Art
ProvenanceMrs. Joshua Cosden; Libby Johnson Moody, Galveston, Texas; Charlene Q. Thompson, Houston, Texas
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.

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