Jar

CultureChinese

Date8th century C.E.

MediumEarthenware with lead glaze

DimensionsOverall: 12 × 10 1/4 inches (30.48 × 26.04 cm)

Credit LinePurchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust

Object number52-19

On View

On view

Gallery Location

Collections

East Asian Art

Terms

DescriptionOvoid jar with short, wide neck. Yellow and blue lozenge-shaped designs on creamy-white ground. run together and glaze ends in uneven line above base.Provenance

Provenance

J. T. Tai & Co., Inc., New York, no. JT 441, by February 15, 1952;

Purchased from J. T. Tai & Co., Inc. by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1952.

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), 207 (repro.).

Capolavori nei Secoli: enciclopedia di tutti le arti, di tutti i popoli, in tutti i tempi (Milano: Fratelli Fabbri, May 26, 1962), 48 (repro.).

Archives of the Chinese Art Society, vol. 19 (New York: Asia Society, 1965) (repro.).

Thomas Froncek, ed., et al., Horizon Book of the Arts of China (New York: American Heritage, 1969), 236 (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), 80 (repro.).

Takashi Suzuki, Chūgoku Bijutsu, vol. 5 (Tokyo: Kodansha, Shōwa 48 1973), pl. 16 (repro.).

Marc. F. Wilson, “Potter’s Choice,” American Craft, vol. 40 (New York: American Craft Council, 1980), 10-17, 15 (repro.).

Garth Clark, ed., Ceramic Echoes: Historical References in Contemporary Ceramics (Kansas City, Missouri: Contemporary Art Society, 1983) (repro.).

Ellen R. Goheen, The Collections of the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art (New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1988), 174 (repro.).

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), 62, 291 (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), 327, pl. 134 (repro.).

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