Finial in the Form of a Tiger Head

CultureChinese

DateWarring States period (480-221 B.C.E.)

MediumBronze inlaid with gold and silver

DimensionsOverall: 2 1/2 × 1 13/16 inches (6.35 × 4.62 cm)

Credit LinePurchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust

Object number32-66/2

On View

On view

Gallery Location

Collections

East Asian Art

Terms

DescriptionBronze animal head, inlaid with gold and silver, resembling the hybrid of a dragon and tiger, embellished with conventional scroll designs.Exhibition History

Exhibition History

Oriental Art Exhibition, Washington University, St. Louis, January 23-March 4, 1966.

Provenance

Yamanaka & Co.;

Purchased from Yamanaka & Co. by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1932.

Published References

Capolavori nei secoli: enciclopedia di tutti le arti, di tutti i popoli, in tutti i tempi, no. 26 (Milano: Fratelli Fabbri, 1862), 25 (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), 175 (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), 280 (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), 296, no. 42 (repro.).

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