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Sanduo Carving
Sanduo Carving
Courtesy of the Harn Museum of Art, Photography by Randy Batista

Sanduo Carving

Artist Chinese Artist
DateQing dynasty (1644-1911), 18th-19th century
Place of originChina, Asia
MediumJade
Dimensions4 1/2 x 6 5/16 x 3 in. (11.4 x 16 x 7.6 cm)
ClassificationsSculpture
Credit LineBequest of Dr. David A. Cofrin
Object number2009.48.295
Collections
Visual DescriptionGroup of a larger finger citron, a pomegranate, and peaches growing amid leafy branches, all supported on reticulated gnarling branches, the stone of speckled white tone, recarved chip to back of pomogranate. (Sotheby's)
Blue and white stem bowl with six lobes decorated with peaches, pomegranates and finger citron.
Stem Bowl with Auspicious Fruits
Chinese Artist
Qing dynasty (1644-1911), 18th century
The gnarled leafy branches forming the base, with two bats in flight, with some added russet accents
Peach
Chinese Artist
18th-19th century
Carved in relief with leafy gnarled branches and two birds in flight
Peaches
Chinese Artist
18th century
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)
This incense container has wonderful areas of relief around the horses, with raised ridges, branches, and points suggesting movement and forming botanical backgrounds. The shape is an allusion to the zakuro (pomegranate), a Japanese symbol of prosperity (based on the huge number of seeds).
Incense container (kogo 香合)
Raku X Tannyu 楽旦入
Edo period (1615-1868), c. 1826-1845
Taxonomic illustrations of six plants and animals. At the top, a brown American monkey and a brown three-toed sloth rest amid branches from the Japanese camphor laurel tree. Below them lie two yellow and brown snakes from Sri Lanka. At the bottom left, a young, hairless Sri Lankan two-toed sloth climbs another camphor laurel branch.
XXXIII
Albert Seba
1734-1755
A black-and-white composite photograph of a dark landscape scattered with pale, twisting dead tree branches. In the foreground rests a large, speckled oval boulder featuring a deep, smooth indentation shaped like a curled, nude human torso.
Untitled
Jerry Uelsmann
1977
A fine cinnabar lacquer box and cover of flat cylindrical form, the box and cover carved in relief with sprays of leafy lychee branches laden with fruit on a geometric ground diaper. The fruit carved with five different diapers, and the interior lacquered black.
Box and Cover
Chinese Artist
Ming Dynasty (1368-1644), 15th-16th century
Black and white print of dense foliage. A prominent, tightly curled fern fiddlehead stands out in the center left, surrounded by detailed fern fronds and leafy branches against a dark textured background.
Exotic Landscape
Lamar Baker
1937
Print with a textured blue to tan gradient. A central form features a rounded, swirling blue top with bare white branches, supported by a column of vertical lines. Faint white outlines of running animals appear near the base.
Rain
Bernard Childs
1967
The domed cover painted with a diaper vignette infiled with prunus, rocks and bamboo, all above a circle evoking a moon, the box with abstracted scrolling branches.
Small Blue and White Round Ink Paste Covered Box
Chinese Artist
Transitional period, 17th century (c. 1643)
A ceramic cow figure sits next to branches extended from outside the frame. From one the branches hangs a small drawn face.
Cow
Bea Nettles
1984

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