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Jar

CultureChinese
DateShang dynasty (1500-1045 B.C.E.)
MediumProto-stoneware with cord markings
DimensionsOverall: 6 1/8 × 8 3/4 inches (15.56 × 22.23 cm)
Credit LinePurchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust
Object number34-253
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DescriptionSlightly lopsided jar, constructed by ring-building, characterized by a rounded body, carinated shoulder, flaring neck. Base is slightly concave. Light gray body with all-over impressed criss-cross design, and covered with a limpid, very thin yellowish glaze intentionally applied.Exhibition History

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

Origins of Chinese Ceramics, China House Gallery, New York, October 25, 1978-January 28, 1979.

Ice and Green Clouds: Traditions of Chinese Celadon,  Indianapolis Museum of Art, January 26-March 23, 1987; The Minneapolis Institute of Art, April 18-June 14, 1987; The Asia Society Galleries, New York, July 16-September 6, 1987; Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, TX, October 18, 1987-January 3, 1988; The Art Institute of Chicago, February 4-March 27, 1988.

Provenance

With Liu Shih-an, K'ai Fêng-fu, Honan (Kaifeng, Henan), China, by June 12, 1934 [1];

Purchased from Liu Shih-an, through Laurence Sickman, by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1934.

NOTES:

[1] Sickman's purchase record, Nelson-Atkins Archives, RG80-15 William Rockhill Nelson Trust Office Files, box 1a, Art Invoices/Vouchers 1934.

Published References

Henry Trubner, Chinese Ceramics (Los Angeles County Museum, March 14-April 27, 1952), 50, no. 10.

Mizuno Seiichi, ed. Sekai toji zenshu (Ceramic Art of the World), Vol.8, from Ancient China to Six Dynasties. (Zauho Press, 1955),pl. 43.

Thomas Dexel, Die Foremen Chinesischer Keramik. (Tubingen: E.Wasmuth, 1955), pl. 11c.

John F. Haskins, “Recent Excavations in China” (Archives of the Chinese Art Society of America. Vol. X, 1956): 45, fig. 2.  

Dekun Zheng, Archaeology in China. Vol. II, Shang China (Cambridge, England: 1960), 290, pl. 30, fig. a.

Suzanne G.Valenstein, Handbook of Chinese Ceramics (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1975),13, fig. 10.

Clarence F. Shangraw, Early Chinese Ceramics and Kilns, Archaeology Vol. 30: 6 (Nov. 1977), 383.

Robert Tichane Those Celadon Blue (New York: State Institute for Glaze Research, 1978),13, fig. 3.1. 

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), 8, (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), 284, (repro.).

Sherman E. Lee, History of Far Eastern Art. 5th ed. (New York: 1994), 32, fig. 24.

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),285, fig.4, (repro.).

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