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Lotus-Shaped Bowl

CultureChinese
Date14th century
MediumSilver
DimensionsOverall: 2 5/8 × 8 1/4 inches (6.67 × 20.96 cm)
Credit LinePurchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust
Object number35-124/2
On View
On view
Gallery Location
  • 224
Collections
DescriptionBowl in the shape of a lotus with twelve petals.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.

Provenance

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

Published References

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. 33e (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. 210 (repro.).

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Bowl
Southern Song dynasty (1127-1279)
33-83
overall
1100-1150
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assembled overall
Yuan dynasty (1279-1368)
35-124/5 A,B
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Robert Green
1997
2024.9.35
overall
2nd-1st century B.C.E.
2009.54
Large Pink Double Lotus
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1775
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Sutra cover
ca. 1410
2016.28.1
Sutra cover
ca. 1410
2016.28.2
Bowl
Southern Song dynasty (1127-1279)
82-12
Lotus-form bowl
1883
2006.9.7.1