Covered Jar

CultureChinese

Date8th century C.E.

MediumEarthenware with lead glaze

DimensionsOverall: 9 × 8 inches (22.86 × 20.32 cm)

Credit LinePurchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust

Object number39-6 A,B

On View

On view

Gallery Location

Collections

East Asian Art

Terms

DescriptionFive descending chrvrons enclosing mottled green and white design. of white flowers with yellow centers on green ground. pointed-star flowers on green ground. Slight repair on lip.Provenance

Provenance

Yamanaka & Co.;

Purchased from Yamanaka & Co. by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1939.

Published References

The William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, The William Rockhill Nelson Collection, 2nd ed. (Kansas City, MO: William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 1941), 115, fig. 15 (repro.).

Capolavori Nei Secoli: enciclopedia di tutti le arti, di tutti i popoli, in tutti i tempi, no.27 (Milano: Fratelli Fabbri, May 26, 1962), 48 (repro.).

Garth Clark, ed., Ceramic Echoes: Historical References in Contemporary Ceramics (Kansas City, Mo: Contemporary Art Society, 1983) (repro.).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), 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), 329, pl. 141 (repro.).

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