Black Ware Jar

CultureChinese

DateNorthern Song dynasty (960-1127)

MediumStoneware with a high-iron glaze

DimensionsOverall: 10 1/2 × 7 3/4 inches (26.67 × 19.69 cm)

Credit LinePurchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust

Object number40-53

On View

On view

Gallery Location

Collections

East Asian Art

Terms

DescriptionJar with ribbed decoration in slip and thick brown-black glaze. lipped nouth; two handles, on shoulder.Provenance

Provenance

Dr. Otto Burchard;

Purchased from Dr. Otto Burchard by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1940.

Published References

Ross E. Taggart, ed., Handbook of the Collections in the William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 4th ed. (Kansas City, MO: William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 1959), 209 (repro.).

Ross E. Taggart, George L. McKenna, and Marc F. Wilson, eds., Handbook of the Collections in The William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, Kansas City, Missouri, vol. II, Art of the Orient. (Kansas City, MO: William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 1973), 85 (repro.).

Garth Clark, ed., Ceramic Echoes: Historical References in Contemporary Ceramics (Kansas City, Missouri: Contemporary Art Society, 1983) (repro.).

Roger Ward and Patricia J. Fidler, eds., The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: A Handbook of the Collection (New York: Hudson Hills Press, in association with Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1993), 296 (repro.).

Deborah Emont Scott, ed., The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: A Handbook of the Collection, 7th ed. (Kansas City, MO: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 2008), 341, pl. 178 (repro.).

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