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Daoist figure roof-tile

y1966-46
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Information

Object Number
y1966-46
Medium
Ceramic with blue, yellow, green vitreous glaze
Dates

16th–17th century

Dimensions
h. 41.5 cm., w. 16.7 cm., d. 13.6 cm. (16 5/16 x 6 9/16 x 5 3/8 in.)
Culture
Chinese
Credit Line
Gift of J. Lionberger Davis, Class of 1900
Place Made

Asia, China

Type
ceramic tile, ceramics, ornament, roof components
Subject
elderly, clouds, figures (representations), men
Materials
clay, glaze

https://www.jstor.org/stable/3774554

"Acquisitions 1965 and 1966," <em>Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University </em>26, no. 1 (1967): p. 2, 19-32., p. 25

880 1967
https://www.jstor.org/stable/3774533

"Gifts by J. Lionberger Davis, Class of 1900, to the Art Museum", <em>Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University</em> 33, no. 2 (1974): p. 24-30., p. 25

6012 1974

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