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Stem Cup

CultureChinese
Datelate 7th-early 8th century C.E.
MediumBeaten and cast silver
DimensionsOverall: 1 13/16 × 2 1/2 inches (4.6 × 6.35 cm)
Credit LinePurchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust
Object number52-20
On View
On view
Gallery Location
  • 224
Collections
DescriptionBowl of the cup with lobed lotus design in repousse. Decorated with alternating panels of flying birds, floral motifs, and arabesque tendrils; stem with flaring lobed foot decorated with arabesque tendrils.Exhibition History

Early Chinese Gold and Silver, China Institute in America, New York, October 20, 1971 - January 30, 1972.

Chinese Gold and Silver from the Tang Dynasty from American Collections, Dayton Art Institute,  November 3, 1984 - January 6, 1985; Cooper-Hewitt Museum, NY, February 5 - April 21, 1985; George Walter Vincent Smith Art Museum, Springfield, MA, June 1 - July 14, 1985; Birmingham [AL] Museum of Art, August 9 - September 22, 1985.

Provenance

Mathias Komor;

Purchased from Mathias Komor 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), 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), 92 (repro.).

Early Chinese Gold and Silver, China Institute in America, New York, October 20, 1971 - January 30, 1972 (repro.).

Clarence W. Kelley, Chinese Gold and Silver in American Collection (Dayton Art Institute, 1984), 57, no.23 (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), 337 (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), 324, no. 123 (repro.).

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