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Ovoid jar

CultureChinese
DateNorthern Song dynasty (960-1127)
MediumStoneware with white slip
DimensionsOverall: 15 1/4 × 4 1/4 inches (38.74 × 10.8 cm)
Credit LinePurchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust
Object number70-3
On View
On view
Gallery Location
  • 229
Collections
Exhibition History

Freedom of Clay and Brush through Seven Centuries in Northern China: Tx'u-Chou Type Wares, 960-1600 A.D., Indianapolis Museum of Art, November 17, 1980 - January 18, 1981;

China House Gallery, New York, March 16 - May 24, 1981;

Cleveland Museum of Art, August 4 -September 6, 1981.

Provenance

Nagatani, Inc.;

Purchased from Nagatani, Inc. by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1970.

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), 85 (repro.).

Neave-Hill, W. B. R., Chinese Ceramics (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1975), 73, fig. 77 (repro.).

Yutaka Mino et al., Freedom of Clay and Brush Through Seven Centuries In Northern China: Tzʻu-chou Type Wares, 960-1600 A.D. : Indianapolis Museum of Art, November 17, 1980-January 18, 1981, China House Gallery, New York, March 16-May 24, 1981, The Denver Art Museum, June 27-August 9, 1981 (Indianapolis: Indianapolis Museum of Art ; Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 1980), pl. 18 (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), 296 (repro.).

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