Ritual Libation Vessel (gu)
- 232
Exhibition of Chinese Bronzes in American Collections, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, October 13 - November 27, 1938.
Golden Gate International Exposition, San Francisco, February 18 - December 2, 1939.
Masterpieces of Chinese Art, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, November 19, 1954 -January 2, 1955.With Liu Shih-an, K’ai Feng-fu, Honan (Kaifeng, Henan), China, by June 12, 1934 [1];
Purchased from Liu Shih-an, through Laurence Sickman, by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1934.
NOTES:
[1] Sickman's purchase record, Nelson-Atkins Archives, RG80-15 William Rockhill Nelson Trust Office Files, box 1a, Art Invoices/Vouchers 1934.
Yenching Journal of Social Studies, vol. 1, no. 1-2 (Peking, China: Yenching University, 1938 - 1939), 292, fig. 558 (repro.).
Pacific Cultures / Department of Fine Arts, Division of Pacific Cultures, cat. no. 5 (San Francisco: Golden Gate International Exposition, 1939) (repro.).
Florance Waterbury, Early Chinese symbols and literature: vestiges and speculations, with particular reference to the ritual bronzes of the Shang dynasty (New York city: E. Weybe, 1942), pl. 43 (repro.).
Herrlee Glessner Creel, The Birth of China; A Study of the Formative Period of Chinese Civilization (New York: F. Ungar, 1954, 1937), 117-118, pl. ix (repro.).
Everard M. Upjohn, Paul S. Wingert, Jane Gaston Mahler, History of World Art, 2d ed. Rev., (New York: Oxford University Press, 1958), fig. 534 (repro.).
Capolavori nei secoli : enciclopedia di tutti le arti, di tutti i popoli, in tutti i tempi, no. 25 (Milano: Fratelli Fabbri, May 12, 1962), 12 (repro.).
Everard M. Upjohn, John P. Sedgwick, Jr, Highlights, an Illustrated History of Art (New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1963), 309, ill. D (repro.).
Mario Bussagli, Bronzi Cinesi (Milano: Fabbri, 1966), 11, pl. 2 (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), 12 (repro.).
Marc F. Wilson, “Form and Design: Chinese Archaic Bronzes and Jades” Apollo, special issue for the Asian art collection in the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Vol. XCVII, no. 133 (March 1973), 49, pl. 2 (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), 288, pl. 15 (repro.).
