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Belthook

CultureChinese
DateWarring States period (480-221 B.C.E.)
MediumBronze inlaid with gold and silver
DimensionsOverall: 3/4 × 4 1/2 inches (1.91 × 11.43 cm)
Credit LinePurchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust
Object number47-75
On View
On view
Gallery Location
  • 224
Collections
Provenance

With Michelangelo Piacentini (d. 2005), Tokyo, by 1947 [1];

Purchased from Piacentini by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1947.

NOTES:

[1] Piacentini was an Italian art historian based in Tokyo after the Second World War. He studied Italian Renaissance art, while collecting and dealing in Asian objects.

Published References

Eleanor von Consten, Das Alte China (Stuttgart: G. Kilpper, 1958), pl. 76 (repro.).   

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