Shakyamuni and Prabhutaratna

With an unknown dealer, Sian-fu (modern-day Xi’an), China, by March 1945 [1];

Purchased from the unknown Chinese dealer by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1945.

NOTES:

[1] Acquisition documents in the Nelson-Atkins files record that Curator of Asian Art Laurence Sickman purchased this object when he was stationed in Asia while serving with the U.S. Army Air Force during World War II. As part of his duties, Sickman made numerous trips within Japan, China, and Korea, during which he sometimes purchased objects for the Nelson-Atkins. Sickman’s purchase of this object is recorded in a list of his wartime acquisitions, Nelson-Atkins Archives, RG80-15 William Rockhill Nelson Trust Files, series 9, box 11.