Belthook
CultureChinese
DateWarring States period (480-221 B.C.E.)
MediumGilt bronze inlaid with silver
DimensionsOverall: 5 7/8 × 7/8 inches (14.92 × 2.22 cm)
Credit LinePurchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust
Object number47-74
On View
On viewGallery Location
- 224
Collections
ProvenanceWith Michelangelo Piacentini (d. 2005), Tokyo, by 1947 [1];
Purchased from Piacentini by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1947.
NOTES:
[1] Piacentini was an Italian art historian based in Tokyo after the Second World War. He studied Italian Renaissance art, while collecting and dealing in Asian objects.
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