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Architectural Reliquary for Cinerary Remains

Architectural Reliquary for Cinerary Remains

CultureChinese
DateSouthern Song dynasty (1127-1279)
MediumStoneware with celadon glaze
DimensionsOverall: 12 3/4 × 6 1/2 × 5 5/8 inches (32.39 × 16.51 × 14.29 cm)
Credit LinePurchase: acquired through the Mr. and Mrs. Henry Nottberg III Fund and the Hall Family Foundation Endowment for the Oriental Department
Object number2001.24 A,B
On View
On view
Gallery Location
  • 229
Collections
DescriptionRectangular architectural model of a small building with two tiered tile roof covered with a light green glaze. A small base supports lattice-like balustrades on each of the four corners as well as four porch eave columns and a small entrance stairway. Two cross supports secure the detachable door. The remaining exteriors are decorated into quarter sections. Bracket sets atop the eave columns give way to two tiered eave rafters sustaining tiled roofs. The apex of the upper roof is decorated with carp and a jeweled lotus flower in the center.Exhibition History

Masterpieces of Asian Art in American Collections II, The Asia Society, Asia House Gallery, New York, 1970.  

Rising Dragon: Ancient Treasures from China. The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 10/06/2007 - 2/10/2008.
Provenance

With Mathias Komor, New York, stock no. DE1, by November 29, 1961;

 

Purchased from Komor by Myron S. Falk, Jr. (1906-1992) and Pauline B. Falk (1910-2000), New York, November 29, 1961-2000 [1];

 

Purchased at their posthumous sale, The Falk Collection I: Fine Chinese Ceramics & Works of Art, Christie’s, New York, October 16, 2001, lot 115, by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2001.

 

NOTES:

 

[1] A copy of Komor’s receipt is in the Nelson-Atkins curatorial file, and this object is listed in an inventory in the Smithsonian National Museum of Asian Art Archives, FSA.A2002.03, Pauline B. and Myron S. Falk, Jr. Papers, Box 48, folder 4, a copy is in the Nelson-Atkins curatorial files.

Published References
Xiaoneng Yang, New At The Nelson:Unique Architectural Model Acquired, Nelson-Atkins, Calendar of Events (Kansas City, Missouri: The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, October 2002), 3 (repro.).

Orientations, Special issue for the Chinese art collection in the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Vol. 39, no. 8 (November/December 2008), 54 (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), 341, pl. 180 (repro.).

Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Ceramics: highlights from the collection of the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art (The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art Museum, 2016), 20 (repro.).




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