Ritual Wine Bucket
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Philbrook Art Center, Tulsa, OK, 1948.
on his back and looking back at his tail.
With Michelangelo Piacentini (d. 2005), Tokyo, by 1947 [1];
Purchased from Piacentini by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1947.
NOTES:
[1] Piacentini was an Italian art historian based in Tokyo after the Second World War. He studied Italian Renaissance art, while collecting and dealing in Asian objects.
“Gallery Plans Expansion,” Town (Greenville, South Carolina: January 9, 1948), 8 (repro.).
Mario Bussagli, Bronzi Cinesi (Milano: 1966), 31, pl. 12 (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), 12 (repro.).
Marc F. Wilson, “Form and Design: Chinese Archaic Bronzes and Jades” Apollo, special issue for the Asian art collection in the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Vol. XCVII, no. 133 (March 1973), 49, pl. 5 (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), 274 (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), 290, pl. 20 (repro.).
