Wine Jar with Lid in Form of the Paradise of the Immortals
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Sacred Mountains in Chinese Art, Krannert Art Museum, Champaign, IL, November 9–December 16, 1990; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, January 25–March 31, 1991, cat. 33.
With Dr. Otto Burchard, Peiping (modern-day Beijing), China, by April 23, 1933-1934 [1];
Purchased from Burchard, through Laurence Sickman, by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1934.
NOTES:
[1] Laurence Sickman, Nelson-Atkins Advisor on Asian Art, first wrote to Langdon Warner about a group of tomb objects, including this piece, on April 23, 1933: “It is what I believe to be a complete set of Han tomb pottery of such high quality and such beauty that it is really quite unbelievable. …there are in all twenty-one pieces all from the same tomb, near Shan Chou, north-west Honan.” Harvard Pusey Library, Langdon Warner Archive, Box 12, Folder 19, copy in Nelson-Atkins curatorial files.
Kiyohiko Munakata, Sacred Mountains in Chinese Art (Champaign, Ill. : Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign ; Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c1991), 88, cat. 33 (repro.).
