Yongle Moon Flask

About this artwork

Status

On View, Gallery 134

Title

Yongle Moon Flask

Place

China (Object made in)

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Made 1403–1424

Medium

Porcelain

Dimensions

28.9 × 23.8 × 14 cm (11 3/8 × 9 3/8 × 5 3/8 in.)

Credit Line

Through prior gifts of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel M. Nickerson and other generous supporters Short-formed Credit line aprroved by Legal Department, 2021] Full Credit line: Through prior gifts of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel M. Nickerson, Lucy Maud Buckingham Collection, and Russel Tyson; through prior bequest of Russell Tyson; through prior gift of Mrs. Howell H. Howard; through prior bequest of Janis H. Palmer; through prior gift of Mrs. Joseph Regenstein; through prior bequest of Martin A. Ryerson; through prior gifts of Mr. and Mrs. Potter Palmer, Mary and Leigh Bock, Emily Crane Chadbourne, and Mrs. Howell H. Howard; through prior bequests of Grace Brown Palmer and Janis H. Palmer; through prior gift of Miss Katherine S. Buckingham to the Lucy Maud Buckingham collection; through prior bequest of Arthur Rubloff; through prior purchase with funds provided by Josephine P. Albright in memory of Alice Higginbotham Patterson; through prior gift of Mr. and Mrs. Howell H. Howard; through prior bequest of Joseph Winterbotham; through prior gifts of Mr. and Mrs. Philip Pinsof, Janis H. Palmer, Mr. and Mrs. Harry H. Blum, Chester D. Tripp, Dr. and Mrs. Harold Weiss, and Medard William Welch in memory of Elizabeth Price Welch; through prior purchase with funds provided by Edward B. Smith Charitable Fund; through prior gifts of Mrs. Tiffany Blake, Mrs. C. Phillip Miller, Nathaniel I. Grey, and Mr. & Mrs. Chauncey McCormick

Reference Number

2021.30

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