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Covered Jar
Covered Jar

Covered Jar

CultureChinese
DateWarring States period (480-221 B.C.E.)
MediumGlazed stoneware with relief decoration
DimensionsOverall: 6 7/8 × 9 1/2 inches (17.46 × 24.13 cm)
Credit LinePurchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust
Object number34-254 A,B
On View
Not on view
Collections
DescriptionJar with cover, in shape of a bronze, with two bands of decoration in relief; handles in form of two Tao-T'ieh masks in relief, lid with three feet, may be reversed for use as a dishExhibition History

Arts of the Chou Dynasty, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, January-May 1952; Stanford University, Art Gallery, February 21-March 28, 1958.

Oriental ceramic Masterpiece Exhibition, Tokyo National Museum., October- November 1970.

Chinese Ceramics, Tokyo National Museum, October 12- November 23, 1994.

Provenance

With Liu Shih-an, K’ai Feng-fu, Honan (Kaifeng, Henan), China, by June 12, 1934 [1];

Purchased from Liu Shih-an, through Laurence Sickman, by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1934.

NOTES:

[1] Sickman's purchase record, Nelson-Atkins Archives, RG80-15 William Rockhill Nelson Trust Office Files, box 1a, Art Invoices/Vouchers 1934.

Published References

Thomas Dexel, Die Foremen Chinesischer Keramik. (Tubingen: E.Wasmuth, 1955), pl. 11c.

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), 74, (repro.).

Apollo, special issue for the Asian art collection in the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Vol. XCVII, no. 133 (March 1973):250,fig. 4, (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), 284, (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), 296, fig. 45, (repro.).

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