Wine Cup

CultureChinese

Date8th century C.E.

MediumEarthenware with three-color lead glaze

DimensionsOverall: 1 7/8 inches (4.76 cm)

Credit LinePurchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust

Object number72-1/11

On View

On view

Gallery Location

Collections

East Asian Art

Terms

Provenance

Harry C. Nail Jr.;

Purchased from Harry C. Nail Jr. by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1972.

Published References

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), 80 (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), 290 (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), 327, pl. 135 (repro.).

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