Ceremonial Dagger Ax
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With C. T. Loo, Inc., New York, stock no. 46345, February-March 1949, as Large chicken bone blade [1];
Purchased from C. T. Loo, Inc. by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1949.
NOTES:
[1] C. T. Loo/Frank Caro archive, Musée Guimet, Paris, copy of stock card in Nelson-Atkins curatorial files.
von Eleanor V. Erdberg Consten, Das Alte China (Stuttgart: G. Kilpper, 1958), pl. 38 (repro.).
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Alfred Salmony, Chinese Jade Through The Wei Dynasty (New York: Ronald Press, 1963), pl. IV, no. 2, Ill (repro.).
William Willetts, Foundations of Chinese Art: from Neolithic Pottery to Modern Architecture. 322 Illus. in Colour and Black and White, 91 Maps, and Line Drawings (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1965), pl. 32 (repro.).
S. Howard Hansford, Chinese Carved Jades (London: Faber, 1968), pl. 20A (repro.).
Thomas Froncek, ed., et al., Horizon Book of the Arts of China (New York: American Heritage, 1969), 71 (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), 20 (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. 10 (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), 286, pl. 8 (repro.).
