Vase in the Form of a Ritual Vessel, type gu
Los Angeles County Museum of Art. January-May 1952.
I-Hsing Ware, China House Gallery, New York, October 26, 1977-January 29, 1978; The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, February 19-May 21, 1978; Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, June 16-September 21, 1978.
With C. T. Loo & Co., New York, stock no. CHL-7/786, by November 1947-1951 [1];
Purchased from C. T. Loo, Inc. by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1951.
NOTES:
[1] C. T. Loo/Frank Caro archive, Musée Guimet, Paris, copy of stock card in Nelson-Atkins curatorial files. C. T. Loo & Co. was incorporated as C. T. Loo, Inc. in 1949.
Robert Poor, “Some Remarkable Examples of I-hsing Ware”, Archives of Chinese Art, (New York., Chinese Art Society of American vol. XX ,1966-67): 76-79; ill. p. 76, fig. 2.
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), 301, (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), 375 fig. 284, (repro.).
