Jar
CultureChinese
DateEastern Han dynasty (25-220 C.E.)
MediumStoneware with incised decoration
DimensionsOverall: 17 × 17 inches (43.18 × 43.18 cm)
Credit LinePurchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust
Object number32-13
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DescriptionGray stoneware vase, with a wide mouth, and decorated with two bands of incised animals and figures on the shoulder.Exhibition HistoryOrigins: Collecting to Create the Nelson-Atkins, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, August 14, 2021-March 6, 2022.
With Celestin Liu, Peiping (modern day Beijing), by August 1931 [1];
Purchased from Celestin Liu, through Laurence Sickman, by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1932.
NOTES:
[1] Mentioned in a letter from Laurence Sickman to Langdon Warner, August 14, 1931, Harvard University Pusey Library, Langdon Warner Personal Archive, HUG 4872.1010, box 12, folder 21, copy in Nelson-Atkins curatorial files.
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