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Tripod Jar

CultureChinese
Date8th century C.E.
MediumEarthenware with three-color lead glaze
DimensionsOverall: 7 7/8 × 7 1/4 inches (20 × 18.42 cm)
Credit LinePurchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust
Object number39-39
On View
On view
Gallery Location
  • 224
Collections
DescriptionStraight sided hexapetalous jar. Pressed all-over diamond pattern. Three claw feet. Alternate panels of blue and green glaze. Yellow slip.Exhibition History

Los Angeles County Museum of Art, January - May 1952.

Provenance

Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc.;

Purchased from Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc. by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1939.

Published References

Chinese Ceramics, From The Prehistoric Period Through Ch'ien Lung; A Loan Exhibition From Collections In America and Japan. March 14 to April 27, 1952 (Los Angeles: 1952), 62, no. 76 (repro.).

Mizuno, ed., Sekai Toji Zenshu, vol. 9 (Tokyo: Kawade Shobo, 1956), fig.5 (repro.).

Sherman E. Lee, “The Changing Taste for Chinese Ceramics” Apollo, special issue for the Asian art collection in the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Vol. XCVII, no. 133 (March 1973), 46, no. 14 (repro.).

Sato, M., Hasebe, G., Sekai tōji zenshū (Ceramic Art of The World, Sui and T’ang Dynasties), vol. 11 (Tokyo: Zauho Press, 1976), 62-63, pl. 46 (repro.).

Garth Clark, ed., Ceramic Echoes Exhibition: Historical References in Contemporary Ceramics (Kansas City, Missouri: Contemporary Art Society, 1983) (repro.).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), 290 (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), 326, no. 131 (repro.).

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