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Garden Rock and Orchids
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Department of Asian Art
Yoshida Hiroshi Nara Japan sold; to [Kang Collection New York (2003)] sold; to Harvard University Art Museums 2003.
Footnote:
1. Yoshida Hiroshi (b.1940)
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum Purchase through the generosity of Mariot Fraser Solomon in memory of Arthur K. Solomon
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