Object details
Accession number
C18n16.2
Primary Creator
Chinese
Full title
Miniature Garden
Creation Date
late 19th century
Provenance
One of a pair purchased by Isabella Stewart Gardner from the Asian antiquities dealers Yamanaka & Company, Boston, for a total of $200 on 14 May 1915.
Dimensions
56 cm (22 1/16 in.)
Display Media
Ceramic, jade and various stones
Web Commentary
Isabella Stewart Gardner kept meticulous records of many of her acquisitions. In keeping with this legacy, object information is continually being reviewed, updated, and enriched in order to give greater access to the collection.
Permanent Gallery Location
Little Salon
Bibliography
Gilbert Wendel Longstreet and Morris Carter. General Catalogue (Boston, 1935), pp. 140-41.
“Notes, Records, Comments.” Gardner Museum Calendar of Events 6, no. 6 (7 Oct. 1962), p. 2.
Yasuko Horioka et al. Oriental and Islamic Art: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (Boston, 1975), p. 39, no. 15, ill.
Alan Chong and Noriko Murai. Journeys East: Isabella Stewart Gardner and Asia. Exh. cat. (Boston: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, 2009), pp. 54-55 fig. 5.
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