Bactrian Camel
CultureChinese
DateSui dynasty (581-618 C.E.)-Tang dynasty (618-906 C.E.)
MediumEarthenware with traces of white slip and pigments
DimensionsOverall: 9 1/4 × 15 × 5 inches (23.5 × 38.1 × 12.7 cm)
Credit LineGift of Earle Grant
Object number59-63
On View
On viewGallery Location
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Collections
ProvenanceEarle W. Grant;
His gift to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1959.
The Nelson Gallery & Atkins Museum Bulletin, vol. II (Kansas City, Missouri: Nelson Gallery and Atkins Museum, January 7, 1960,) no. 3 (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), 82 (repro.).
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