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Lid with Ring Handle

CultureChinese
DateWarring States period (480-221 B.C.E.)
MediumBronze inlaid with silver
DimensionsOverall: 4 7/8 inches (12.38 cm)
Credit LinePurchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust
Object number44-4
On View
On view
Gallery Location
  • 224
Collections
Exhibition History

Ancient Chinese Bronzes, Asia House Gallery, New York, October 10-December 15, 1968.

Provenance

Purchased through Laurence Sickman by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1944.

Published References

The William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, The William Rockhill Nelson Collection, 3rd ed. (Kansas City, MO: William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 1949), 131 (repro.).

Max Loehr, Ritual Vessels of Bronze Age China, cat. no. 75 (New York: Asia Society, 1968), pl. 167 (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), 131 (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), 278 (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), 300. No.54 (repro.).

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