Wine Cup

CultureChinese

DateHan dynasty (206 B.C.E.-220 C.E.)

MediumBlack and red lacquer

DimensionsOverall: 2 5/16 × 5 5/16 × 6 11/16 inches (5.87 × 13.49 × 16.99 cm)

Credit LinePurchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust

Object number48-36/6

On View

On view

Gallery Location

Collections

East Asian Art

Terms

Gallery Label

Despite its small size, this cup is outstanding for the delicacy of its painted decoration. The filament-like fineness of the drawing would have been very hard to accomplish in such a fluid medium as lacquer and probably represents an attempt to imitate embroidered textile designs.

Provenance

F. P. Musso;

Purchased from F. P. Musso by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1948.

Published References

The William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, The William Rockhill Nelson Collection, 3rd ed. (Kansas City, MO: William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 1949), 134 (repro.).

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), 179 (repro.).

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