Wine Vessel (zun)
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Masterpieces of Chinese Art, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, November 19, 1954-January 2, 1955.
Possibly excavated in Mako, near Luoyang, China, Spring 1930 [1];
With Michelangelo Piacentini (d. 2005), Tokyo, by May 1946 [2];
Purchased from Piacentini by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1946 [3].
NOTES:
[1] According to a handwritten note on the back of a photograph in the curatorial file. This information has not been confirmed and ‘Mako’ has not yet been identified.
[2] 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.
[3] Acquisition documents in the Nelson-Atkins files record that Curator of Asian Art Laurence Sickman purchased this object when he was stationed in Tokyo while serving with the U.S. Army’s Civil, Information & Education section in Asia (commonly known as the Monuments Men and Women) after World War II.
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), 278 (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), 303, no. 66 (repro.).
