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Tiger Mask

CultureChinese
Date11th-10th century B.C.E.
MediumBronze
DimensionsOverall: 6 1/8 × 6 × 2 inches (15.56 × 15.24 × 5.08 cm)
Credit LinePurchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust
Object number50-32
On View
On view
Gallery Location
  • 232
Collections
Provenance

Mathias Komor;

Purchased from Mathias Komor by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1950.

Published References

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), 279 (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), 293, pl. 30 (repro.).

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