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Branch of an Old Blossoming Plum Tree
View through Harvard Museums
Department of Asian Art
[Kang Collection New York (2005)] sold; to Harvard University Art Museums 2005.
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum Ernest B. and Helen Pratt Dane Fund for Asian Art
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