Gold Box
CultureChinese
DateHan dynasty (206 B.C.E.-220 C.E.)
MediumSolid gold with granular work
DimensionsOverall: 5/16 × 3/4 inches (0.79 × 1.91 cm)
Credit LinePurchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust
Object number41-59 A,B
On View
On viewGallery Location
- 224
Collections
Exhibition HistoryEarly Chinese Gold and Silver, China Institute in America, New York, October 20, 1971 -January 30, 1972.
Laurence Sickman;
Purchased from Laurence Sickman by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1941.
Sueji
Umehara, “Han and Six Dynasty Gold,” Yamato
Bunka, no.xvi (December 1954), pl.Via (repro.).
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