Cricket Gourd
CultureChinese
Date1803
MediumMolded and carved gourd with ivory and tortoise top
DimensionsOverall: 4 5/8 × 2 5/16 inches (11.75 × 5.87 cm)
Credit LineGift of Fanny Pomeroy Brown
Object number41-39/6 A,B
On View
On viewGallery Location
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DescriptionMolded gourd carved with landscape motifs, garden rock, plants of berries, and fish. Signature of Chen Jintang on the 8th month of autumn, 1803. Ivory fitting and lid with tortoise finial. Quilted cloth case.ProvenanceFanny Pomeroy Brown;
Their gift to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1941.
Schuyler Cammann, “Chinese Impressed Gourds Reconsidered,” Oriental Art, vol. 10, no.4, (1946), 218, note 8 (repro.).
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