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Tray

CultureChinese
Date14th century
MediumBronze with repoussé decoration
DimensionsOverall: 19 inches (48.26 cm)
Credit LinePurchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust
Object number31-117/28
On View
Not on view
Collections
DescriptionCircular tray with petalled rim. In center raised design of stork perched on tall grass amid peonies, leaves and insects.Exhibition History

Chinese Art under the Mongols: the Yuan dynasty,1279–1368, Yale University Art Gallery, 1968-1969; Albright-Knox Gallery, Buffalo, NY; Cleveland Museum of Art, October 1-November 24, 1968, no. 36; Asia House Gallery, New York.

Provenance

Takuma Kuroda;

Purchased from Takuma Kuroda by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1931.

Published References

Sherman E Lee and Wai-kam Ho, Chinese Art under the Mongols: the Yuan dynasty, 1279–1368, exh. cat. (Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1968), 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), 338 (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), 352, fig.213 (repro.).




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