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mid-17th century · Porcelain painted with cobalt blue under transparent glaze (Jingdezhen ware) · Asian Art
Found in paintings as well as the decorative arts, the theme of figures washing an elephant, or sao xiang, is a pun on the Buddhist notion of the illusionary nature of the phenomenal world.
- Artist
- Unknown
- Date
- mid-17th century
- Medium
- Porcelain painted with cobalt blue under transparent glaze (Jingdezhen ware)
- Culture
- China
- Department
- Asian Art
- Credit line
- Purchase, Gift of Elizabeth V. Cockcroft, by exchange, 2008
