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Plaque with Composite Bird and Animal Forms
Plaque with Composite Bird and Animal Forms

Plaque with Composite Bird and Animal Forms

CultureChinese
Date10th century B.C.E.
MediumJade (nephrite)
DimensionsOverall: 6 5/8 × 2 7/8 × 1/4 inches (16.83 × 7.3 × 0.64 cm)
Credit LinePurchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust
Object number50-45
On View
On view
Gallery Location
  • 232
Collections
Provenance

With C. T. Loo, Inc., by September 1950 [1];

Purchased from C. T. Loo, Inc. by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1950.

NOTES:

[1] C. T. Loo/Frank Caro archive, Musée Guimet, Paris, copy of stock card in Nelson-Atkins curatorial files. The stock number as written on the card (NN-) seems to be incomplete.


Published References

Archives of the Chinese Art Society of America, vol.V (New York: Asian Society, 1951), 75, fig. 15 (repro.).

Judith Hart Burling, Arthur Hart Burling, Chinese Art (New York: Studio; Crowell, 1953), pl. 262 (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), 177 (repro.).

Alfred  Salmony, Chinese Jade Through The Wei Dynasty (New York: Ronald Press, 1963), pl. xiv, no. 1 (repro.).

S. Howard Hansford, Chinese Carved Jades (London: Faber, 1968), pl. 3 (repro.).

Harry M. Garner, review of APOLLO, Vol. XCVII (March 1969), 242, fig. 1 (repro.).

Toho Gakuho, Mino Hayashi, “Ceremonial Jade in Ancient China,” Journal of Oriental Studies, no. 40 (Kyoto: March 1969), 161, Ill (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), 21 (repro.).

Marc F. Wilson, “Form and Design: Chinese Archaic Bronzes and Jades” Apollo, special issue for the Asian art collection in the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Vol. XCVII, no. 133 (March 1973), 53, pl. 11 (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), 291, pl. 24 (repro.).

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