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Bottle

CultureChinese
DateEastern Han dynasty (25-220 C.E.)
MediumGold with turquoise inlay
DimensionsOverall: 1 9/16 inches (3.97 cm)
Credit LinePurchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust
Object number40-50
On View
On view
Gallery Location
  • 224
Collections
DescriptionGold bottle with turquoise inlay. Spreading foot, swelling body, narrow neck, lid with short chain. Chain attached to ring at shoulder on either side with applicator attached. Granular scrolls with turquoise in leaf shaped designs.Exhibition History

Exhibition of Han Art, Art Institute of Chicago, November 1941.

Mulvane Art Museum, Washburn University, Topeka, KS, 1948.

The Arts of the Han Dynasty, The Asia Society, New York, February 7- March 26, 1961.

Provenance

Dr. Otto Burchard;

Purchased from Dr. Otto Burchard by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1940.

Published References

Sueji Umehara, “Han & Six Dynasty Gold,” Yamato Bunka, no. xvi (December 1954), pl. VII a (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), 180 (repro.).

The Arts of the Han Dynasty/ Chinese Art Society of America, Asia House, New York, February - March, 1961 (Kansas City, Missouri: Grimes-Joyce Print, 1961), 45, no. 82 (repro.).

Oriental Art, vol. viii, no. 1 (1962), 26, fig. 18 (repro.).

Soame Jenyns and William Watson, Chinese Art, The Minor Arts (New York: 1963), 33, no. 11 (repro.).

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), 91 (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), 337 (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), 305, no. 71 (repro.).

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