Title

Jade bird with peach on rock, late Ming dynasty, China, 1550-1644. Artist: Unknown

Caption

Jade bird with peach on rock, late Ming dynasty, China, 1550-1644. A carved yellowish-white jade with brown flecks and patches in the form of a bird seated on a holey rock. The bird's head is turned back towards the tail and it is holding a fruiting peach branch in its beak.
Bath (England), The Museum of East Asian Art

Date

1550

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images

Reference

HRM19B74_159

Model release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

17,9Mb (517,1Kb) / 7,4in x 9,4in / 2215 x 2832 (300dpi)

Keywords

horizontal holding Asian Asia fruit ORIENTAL stone arts bird birds country branch sculpture China art Chinese continent color colour brown beak carved ming location century cream artefact dynasty Ming Dynasty peach artifact 17th century 16th century sixteenth century seventeenth century Museum of East Asian Art object Unknown jade jade object