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Basin with Spout and Loop Handle

CultureChinese
DateYuan dynasty (1279-1368)
MediumSilver
DimensionsOverall: 2 1/2 × 9 1/2 × 7 1/4 inches (6.35 × 24.13 × 18.42 cm)
Credit LinePurchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust
Object number35-124/3
On View
On view
Gallery Location
  • 224
Collections
DescriptionShallow vessel with long spout and loop handle underneath the spout.Exhibition History

China Institute, New York. April 27 - June 1951.

The Art of Southern Sung China, Asia House Gallery, New York, February 15 - April 15, 1962.

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.

Unearthing China's Past, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, November 15, 1973 - February 15, 1974.

Provenance

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

Published References

Exhibition of Ancient Chinese Silver On The Occasion of The Silver Anniversary Of China Institute In America (New York: 1951.), 5 (repro.).

Archives of Asian Art, vol. xi (New York: Asia Society, 1957), 82, fig. 6 (repro.).

James Cahill, The Arts of Southern Sung China (New York: Asian House, 1962), pl. 38 (repro.).

Daisy Goldschmidt Lion, Jean Claude Moreau-Gobard, Soame Jenyns, William Watson, Werner Speiser, Roger Goepper, Jean Fribourg, Chinese Art (New York: Universe Books, 1963), 77, no. 34b (repro.).

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. 33c (repro.).

Jan Fontein and Tung Wu, Unearthing China’s Past, cat. no. 105 (Boston: Museum of Fine Arts; Greenwich, Connecticut; New York Graphic Society, 1973), 197 (repro.).

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