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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1942.185.124.A
Title
Jade Circular Table Screen with Decoration of Figures in a Landscape on the Front and Trees and Mountains on the Back
Classification
Furnishings
Work Type
screen
Date
19th century
Places
Creation Place: East Asia, China
Period
Qing dynasty, 1644-1911
Culture
Chinese
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/205381

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Dark green nephrite (so-called spinach-green jade)
Dimensions
Diam. 18.0 x Thickness (max.) 1.4 cm (7 1/16 x 9/16 in.)

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Gift of Ernest B. and Helen Pratt Dane
Accession Year
1942
Object Number
1942.185.124.A
Division
Asian and Mediterranean Art
Contact
am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
The slightly curved front depicts a scholar looking over the railing of a riverside pavilion at rolling waves; the flat back contains a scene of trees and mountains in low relief.

Publication History

  • Illustrated Catalogue of an Extraordinary Collection of Imperial Jades and Other Beautiful Objects ... : mostly from the private collection of the late Captain J.F. Peel ... to be sold at unrestricted public sale by order of Messrs. Yamanaka & Co. .., auct. cat., American Art Association (New York, NY, 1912), no. 225 (illustrated right)

Exhibition History

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