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Striding Lion

CultureChinese
DateTang dynasty (618-906 C.E.)
MediumGilt bronze
DimensionsOverall: 3 1/2 × 3 9/16 × 2 inches (8.89 × 9.05 × 5.08 cm)
Credit LinePurchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust
Object number47-77
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Provenance

With Michelangelo Piacentini (d. 2005), Tokyo, by 1947 [1];

Purchased from Piacentini by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1947.

NOTES:

[1] Piacentini was an Italian art historian based in Tokyo after the Second World War. He studied Italian Renaissance art, while collecting and dealing in Asian objects.

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