Elephant-shaped Candle Stand
CultureChinese
DateTang dynasty (618-906 C.E.)
MediumGlazed stoneware
DimensionsOverall: 10 1/4 × 11 5/8 × 6 7/8 inches (26 × 29.5 × 17.4 cm)
Credit LineGift of Mr. and Mrs. Miller Nichols
Object number76-7
On View
On viewGallery Location
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Collections
ProvenanceMr. and Mrs. Miller Nichols;
Their gift to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1976.
Wen-wu Ts’an-k’ao tzu-liao (1957), 73 (repro.).
Taichiro Kobayashi, To-So no Hakuji (Tokyo: Heibonsha, Showa 34, 1959), 20, fig. 26 (repro.).
Joe yuey, Chinese Ceramic Art, Han to Sung (San Francisco: June 1960), no. 9 (repro.).
The Nelson Gallery & Atkins Museum bulletin, vol. V (Kansas City: Nelson Gallery and Atkins Museum, 1978), 27, no. 4 (repro.).
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