Cauldron for Holding Foods
Original Language TitleTing
Original Language Title青铜鼎
CultureChinese
Date11th century B.C.E.
MediumBronze
DimensionsOverall: 7 3/4 × 6 1/2 inches (19.69 × 16.51 cm)
Credit LinePurchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust
Object number32-68/41
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DescriptionThree-legged bronze vessel, body shaped in three lobes tapering to the legs. Large T'ao T'ieh masks incised on each of the three lobes. Band of cicadas incised around the top. Two handles at the rim. Inscribed.Exhibition HistoryExhibition of Chinese bronzes in American collections, Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC, October 13-November 27, 1938, no.14.
Exhibition, Drury College, Springfield, MO. April 17-May 21, 1972.
Exhibition, Drury College, Springfield, MO. June 27-September 7, 1973.
China Contempo/Rarities, Waterloo Municipal Galleries, Iowa, May 18-June 15, 1980.
The Nature of Looking: Chinese Art, Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, January 16 – April 18, 1999.
Emperors, Scholars and Temples: Tastemakers of China’s Ming and Qing Dynasties, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, August 12, 2016 – July 9, 2017Duanfang (1861-1911);
Yamanaka & Co., New York;
Purchased from Yamanaka & Co. by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1932.
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