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Pendant with Rampant Tiger Motif

CultureChinese
Date5th-3rd century B.C.E.
MediumJade (nephrite)
DimensionsOverall: 2 1/8 inches (5.4 cm)
Credit LinePurchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust
Object number50-21
On View
On view
Gallery Location
  • 231
Collections
Provenance

Mrs. Chang, by March 1950 [1];

Purchased from Mrs. Chang, through C. T. Loo, Inc., New York, no. c-20, by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1950.

NOTES:

[1] Nelson-Atkins Archives, RG01-01, Office of the Director Records, box 1, folder 28.

Published References

Sueji  Umehara, Shina Kogyoku Zuroku (Kyoto: Kuwana Bunseido, Showa 30, 1955), pl. LXXXIII, no. 8 (repro.).

Ross E. Taggart, ed., Handbook of the Collections in the William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 4th ed. (Kansas City, MO: William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 1959), 178 (repro.).

S. Howard Hansford, Chinese Carved Jades (London: Faber, 1968), pl. 42B (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), 22 (repro.).

Apollo, special issue for the Asian art collection in the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Vol. XCVII, no. 133 (March 1973), 56, no. 13 (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), 295, no. 41 (repro.).

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