1942.185.192.A: Jade Cylindrical Brush Holder with Five Small Feet and with Decoration of Figures in a Mountainous Landscape

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1942.185.192.A

Title

Jade Cylindrical Brush Holder with Five Small Feet and with Decoration of Figures in a Mountainous Landscape

Classification

Artists' Tools

Work Type

brush holder

Date

late 18th century-19th century

Places

Creation Place: East Asia, China

Period

Qing dynasty, 1644-1911

Culture

Chinese

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/205407

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Dark green nephrite with black flects and gray veins (so-called spinach-green jade), the stone of Siberian origin, probably from the area around Lake Baikal

Dimensions

H. 15.1 × Diam. 17 cm (5 15/16 × 6 11/16 in.)
Thickness 1.6 cm (5/8 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

1942.185.192.A

Division

Asian and Mediterranean Art

Contact

am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu

Permissions

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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. 220 (illustrated with implements)
• Jenny So, Early Chinese Jades in the Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2019), pp. 20-21, fig. 1.4

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