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Green plaque with small chip in corner.
Plaque
Courtesy of the Harn Museum of Art, Photography by Foad Seyed Mohammadi

Plaque

Artist Chinese Artist
Date20th century
Place of originChina, Asia
MediumJade
Dimensions3 15/16 x 3 15/16 x 1/8 in. (10 x 10 x 0.3 cm)
ClassificationsSculpture
Credit LineBequest of Dr. David A. Cofrin
Object number2009.48.146
Collections
Visual DescriptionGreen plaque with small chip in corner.
An oval white nephrite plaque, finely cut and pierced with a design of a long-tailed bird with half opened wings and crested head, perched amid the branches of a flowering leafy tree. With a later elaborate wood stand.
Openwork Plaque
Chinese Artist
Ming dynasty (1368-1644)
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Openwork Oval Plaque
Chinese Artist
18th century or later
Round plaque with abstracted human face. Accompanied by outer and inner boxes with ink signatures and applied title papers to box.
Human Face Form Plaque
Isamu Noguchi
1952
The thick stone well carved as a recumbent buffalo following the form of the boulder, the legs ticked beneath the body, the head turned to tone side, with broad snout and large curled horns, opposite the tail flicked to one side, the grayish green stone infused with a patch of white, small chip
Recumbent Buffalo
Chinese Artist
19th-20th century
A cicada, the surface with simple incised linear details, the stone a translucent light green tone. Possible chip to mouth, nicks to tips of wings.
Cicada
Chinese Artist
Han dynasty (206 BCE-220 CE)
The oblong plaque carved with a duck standing among aquatic plants.
Reticulated Pendant
Chinese Artist
Ming dynasty (1368-1644)
Small braise to cover, polished chip to edge of knop
Pouring Vessel and Cover
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Qing dynasty (1644 - 1911), 18th-19th century
Shown with head arched back and resting on its body, some small chips to wings and tail feathers
Recumbent Phoenix
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Song and Ming dynasty (960-1644)
Sanduo Carving
Sanduo Carving
Chinese Artist
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Of compressed zun form, the sides carved in shallow relief with two pairs of confronted dragons contained within keyfret borders, below four raised keyfret-incised flanges which divide the shoulder and interrupt a band of dots above, the widely flared neck encircled by two bowstring bands and carved on the interior with three grooved lines, intentionally altered to a blackish color with areas of the pale gray stone showing through, minor rim chips.
Archaistic Bronze-form Vessel
Chinese Artist
Song dynasty (960-1279)
Jade Prism (Cong) 玉琮
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Zhou dynasty (1050–256 BCE) or later
Disc
Disc
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Neolithic Period or later

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