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accession number: 1952.510
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Bowl with Daoist Figures, 1271–1368. China, Yuan dynasty (1271-1368). White jade; diameter of mouth: 10.3 cm (4 1/16 in.); overall: 6.5 cm (2 9/16 in.); width with handles: 16 cm (6 5/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Anonymous Gift 1952.510
title: Bowl with Daoist Figures
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creation date: 1271–1368
creation date earliest: 1271
creation date latest: 1368
current location: 240B Chinese Decorative Arts
creditline: Anonymous Gift
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culture: China, Yuan dynasty (1271-1368)
technique: white jade
department: Chinese Art
collection: China - Yuan Dynasty
type: Jade
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measurements: Diameter of mouth: 10.3 cm (4 1/16 in.); Overall: 6.5 cm (2 9/16 in.); width with handles: 16 cm (6 5/16 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
title: Realm of the Immortals: Daoism in the Arts of China
opening date: 1988-02-10T05:00:00
Realm of the Immortals: Daoism in the Arts of China. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 10-April 10, 1988).
title: The World of Kubilai Khan: Chinese Art in the Yuan Dynasty
opening date: 2010-09-20T00:00:00
The World of Kubilai Khan: Chinese Art in the Yuan Dynasty. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY (organizer) (September 20, 2010-January 2, 2011).
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
* Chinese Jade. The University Museum, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA (November 30-February 3, 1963).
* Chinese Art Under the Mongols: The Yüan Dynasty (1279-1368). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (October 2-November 24, 1968); Asia House, New York, NY (January 16-March 2, 1969).
* Chinese Jades from Han to Ch'ing. Asia House Gallery, New York, NY (October 9-December 7, 1980); The Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI (January 12-February 22, 1981); Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA (March 26-May 10, 1981); Honolulu Academy of Arts, Honolulu, HI (July 17-September 13, 1981).
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PROVENANCE
Mrs. Dudley S. [Elizabeth Beardsley Bingham] Blossom [1881–1970], South Euclid, OH, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art
date: ?–1952
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The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
date: 1952–
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This exquisite bowl is a rare specimen of jade carving from about 1200s-1300s. It is carved with a Daoist procession scene in low relief, with images of the immortals, musicians, and attendants. Two female immortals, carved in the round, flank the two sides as handles. This robustly carved vessel, presumably served as a personal item of luxury, reflects the great interests in jade and Daoist subjects in the material culture of the literati and the court. A similar example from the Song dynasty and a later emulation with the imperial mark "Imitating the Past during the Great Qing" are both preserved in the Palace Museum, Beijing.
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RELATED WORKS
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CITATIONS
Lee, Sherman E. “Chinese Carved Jades.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art, vol. 41, no. 4, 1954, pp. 67–68, 71.
page number: Reproduced: p. 71
url: www.jstor.org/stable/25141956
The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958.
page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 858
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n152
The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966.
page number: Reproduced: p. 260
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n284
Lee, Sherman E., and Wai-kam Ho. Chinese Art Under the Mongols: The Yüan Dynasty, 1279-1368. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art; [distributed by the Press of Case Western Reserve University], 1968.
page number: Reproduced: pl. 298
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The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969.
page number: Reproduced: p. 260
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n284
The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978.
page number: Reproduced: p. 344
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n364
Watt, James C. Y. Chinese Jades from Han to Chʻing. New York: Asia Society, in association with J. Weatherhill, 1980.
page number: cat. no. 131
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Oriental Art vol. 27, no. 1 (Spring 1981), pp. 104–107.
page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 106–107, fig. 9
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Guo li gu gong bo wu yuan [National Palace Museum = 國立故宮博物院]. Hai wai yi zhen, Yuqi. [海外遺珎, 玉噐 = Chinese art in overseas collections, jade.] Zhonghua min guo Taibei Shi Shilin qu: Guo li gu gong bo wu yuan, 1986.
page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: pl. 93
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Little, Stephen. Realm of the Immortals: Daoism in the Arts of China: the Cleveland Museum of Art, February 10-April 10, 1988. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art in cooperation with Indiana University Press, 1988.
page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 20, p. 47, p. 24, color plate 20
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Watt, James C. Y., and Maxwell K. Hearn. The World of Khubilai Khan: Chinese Art in the Yuan Dynasty. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2010.
page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: fig. 355, p. 298
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Cleveland Museum of Art. The CMA Companion: A Guide to the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2014.
page number: Mentioned and reproduced: P. 104
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