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Bottle with Lid

CultureChinese
Date14th century
MediumSilver
DimensionsOverall: 13 3/4 × 5 1/4 inches (34.93 × 13.34 cm)
Credit LinePurchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust
Object number35-124/1
On View
On view
Gallery Location
  • 224
Collections
DescriptionBottle with bulbous body and long, tapering neck; domed lid with finial in shape of a jewel or lotus bud, is attached by means of a chain.Exhibition History

China Institute, New York. April 27 - June 1951.

Chinese Art Under the Mongols, Yale University Art Gallery, 1968-1969; Albright-Knox Gallery, Buffalo, New York; Cleveland Museum of Art, October 1 - November 24, 1968; Asia House Gallery, New York.

Unearthing China's Past, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, November 15, 1973 - February 15, 1974.

Provenance

Purchased through Laurence Sickman by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1935.

Published References

Exhibition of Ancient Chinese Silver On The Occasion of The Silver Anniversary Of China Institute In America (New York: 1951.), 5 (repro.).

Archives of Asian Art, vol. xi (New York: Asia Society, 1957), 82, fig. 5a (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), 181 (repro.).

Enciclopedia Universal Dell ‘Arte, Cina Storice (Rome: 1960), pl. 312 (repro.).

Encyclopedia of World Art, vol. 3 (Rome; New York: McGraw-Hill, 1960), pl. 274 (repro.).

Daisy Goldschmidt Lion, Jean Claude Moreau-Gobard, Soame Jenyns, William Watson, Werner Speiser, Roger Goepper, Jean Fribourg, Chinese Art (New York: Universe Books, 1963), 77, no. 34a (repro.).

Sherman E. Lee, Wai-kam Ho, Chinese Art Under the Mongols: Yuan Dynasty, 1279-1368, (Cleveland Cleveland Museum of Art; Press of Case Western Reserve University, 1968), no. 33d (repro.).

Thomas Froncek, ed., et al., Horizon Book of the Arts of China (New York: American Heritage, 1969), 279 (repro.).

Jan Fontein, Tung Wu, Unearthing China’s Past, cat. no. 105 (Boston: Museum of Fine Arts; Greenwich, Connecticut; New York Graphic Society, 1973), 198 (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), 93 (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), 339 (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), 351, no. 209 (repro.).

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