Bowl

CultureChinese

Date8th century C.E.

MediumSilver with parcel gilt, repoussé and engraved decoration

DimensionsOverall: 2 1/4 × 6 1/4 inches (5.72 × 15.88 cm)

Credit LinePurchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust

Object number56-72

On View

On view

Gallery Location

Collections

East Asian Art

Terms

Exhibition History

Arts of the Tang Dynasty, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, January 8-February 17, 1957.

Unearthing China's Past, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, November 15, 1973-February 15, 1974.

Provenance

Yamanaka & Co.;

Purchased from Yamanaka & Co. by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1956.

Published References

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), 180, (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), 91, (repro.).

Laurence Sickman, Editorial, “ Simplicity and Subtlety, The Decorative Arts in China”, Apollo, special issue for the Asian art collection in the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Vol. XCVII, no. 133 (March 1973): 267,fig. 3, (repro.).

Ellen R. Goheen, The Collections of the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art (New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1988):172.

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), 60,338, (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), 328, fig. 138, (repro.)..

Colin Mackenzie, with contributions by Ling-En Lu, Masterworks of Chinese art: the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art (Kansas City, Mo.: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 2011), 48. , (repro.).

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