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Bird

CultureChinese
DateNeolithic period (7000-2000 B.C.E.)
MediumGreen nephrite (jade)
DimensionsOverall: 4 1/8 × 2 3/4 × 5 1/2 inches (10.48 × 6.99 × 13.97 cm)
Credit LineGift of Dr. Otto Burchard
Object number36-21
On View
On view
Gallery Location
  • 224
Collections
DescriptionStylized bird form with triangular shaped projection at base and two indentations under the wings.Exhibition History

Philbrook Art Center, Tulsa, OK, 1948.

Cernuschi Museum, Paris, May 14-August 1954.

Small Sculpture Shang Through Sung Dynasties, Chinese Art Society of America, New York, February 19- April 17, 1954.

 New York University, China House, China Institute, New York, February 15-April 8, 1954.

Provenance

Dr. Otto Burchard;

His gift to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1936.

Published References

Alfred Salmony, Carved Jade In Ancient China (Berkeley, California: Printed at the Gillick, 1938), (repro.).

Small Sculpture Shang Through Sung Dynasties, cat. no. 1 (New York: Chinese Art Society of America, 1954), fig.1 (repro.).

La Decouverte de L’Asie: hommage à René Grousset: ville de Paris, Musée Cernuschi (Paris: Le Musée, 1954), 90, pl.xvi (repro.).

Hermine van Guldener, Beeldhouwkunst: Zien en vergelijken (Bilthoven: Nelissen; Antwepen: 't Groeit, 1956), pl. 1 (repro.).

William Willetts, Chinese Art (Harmondsworth, Middlesex; Baltimore, MD: Penguin Books, 1958), pl.7a (repro.).

Sherman Lee, History of Eastern Art (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall; New York: H. N. Abrams, 1964), 24, fig.10 (repro.).

William Willetts, Foundations of Chinese Art From Neolithic Pottery to Modern Architecture. 322 illus. In Colour and Black and White, 91 Maps, and Line Drawings (New York, McGraw-Hill 1965), pl.41 (repro.).

Howard Hansford, Chinese Carved Jades (London: Faber, 1968), pl. 1A (repro.).

L. Zara, Jade (New York, 1969), 33, fig. 16 (repro.).

Hugo Munsterberg, Sculpture of The Orient (New York: Dover Publications, 1972), pl. 56 (repro.).

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