Kneeling Figure

With Lee Sung Shang, Peiping (modern-day Beijing), China, by January 12, 1932;

Purchased from Lee Sung Shang, through Laurence Sickman and Otto Burchard, by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1932 [1].

NOTES:

[1] Laurence Sickman's purchasing notebook indicates this object was acquired from Lee Sung Shang, no. 1 San Tiao Hutung, Peiping (modern-day Beijing), through dealer Otto Burchard. It was one of a group of objects he acquired from Lee Sung Shang at the same time in January 1932. These objects are also listed on the front of Lee Sung Shang's business card, which is included loose inside Sickman's notebook. An accession card in the Nelson-Atkins files, however, lists dealer Scha Yu Fu as the object's source. It is unclear whether Scha Yu Fu may have been involved in the transaction, but since the accession card naming him would have been created much later than Sickman's purchasing notes, and Scha Yu Fu is not mentioned anywhere else in documentation for this object, his inclusion on the accession card may have been an error. Nelson-Atkins Archives, MSS001 Laurence Sickman Papers, box 12, folder 11, copy in curatorial files.