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Wide-mouth Vase

Original Language Title盤口長頸瓶
CultureChinese
DateLiao dynasty (907-1125)
MediumGlazed porcelain
DimensionsOverall: 16 1/4 × 6 1/8 inches (41.28 × 15.56 cm)
Credit LinePurchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust
Object number40-3/2
On View
On view
Gallery Location
  • 229
Collections
DescriptionGrayish-white porcelaneous stoneware with grayish-white glaze. Swelling ovoid body joining narrow, incurved neck with shallow dish-shaped mouth having a narrow vertical rim. Recessed base, with gritty adhesions.Exhibition History

Ceramics in the Liao Dynasty, China Institute in America, New York, March 14 - May 25, 1973.

Provenance

Yamanaka & Co;

Purchased from Yamanaka & Co by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1940.

Published References

The William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, The William Rockhill Nelson Collection, 2nd ed. (Kansas City, MO: William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 1941), 115, fig. 15 (repro.).

The William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, The William Rockhill Nelson Collection, 3rd ed. (Kansas City, MO: William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 1949), 79 (repro.).

S. Mizuno, ed., Sekai Toji Zenshu (Tokyo: Zauho Press, 1955), 248, fig. 171 (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), 87 (repro.).

Yutaka Mino, Ceramics in the Liao Dynasty, North and South of the Great Wall (New York, China Institute in America, 1973), 62, no. 36 (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), 294 (repro.).

Sherman Lee, A History of Eastern Art (New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1994), 261, fig. 333 (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), 335, pl. 162 (repro.).

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