Capital in the Shape of a Bull
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The back, legs, chest and a few parts of the bull's face have been restored. The separately made ears and horns are now missing; the original brilliant paint on the bull has disappeared.
Excavated at Persepolis by Professor Ernst Herzfeld for the University of Chicago, between 1932-1934;
Oriental Institute, University of Chicago, 1934-1948;
Acquired from the Oriental Institute by the dealer Paul Mallon, New York, 1948-1950;
Purchased from Mallon by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1950.
“Head of a Bull in the William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art,” Art Quarterly 13 (1950): 342-45.
Ross E. Taggart, ed., Handbook of the Collections in the William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 4th ed. (Kansas City, MO: William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 1959), 13.
Roman Ghirshman, The Arts of Ancient Iran (New York: Golden Press, 1964), 217, fig. 266, 429.
Ross E. Taggart and George L. McKenna, eds., Handbook of the Collections in The William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, Kansas City, Missouri, vol. 1, Art of the Occident, 5th ed. (Kansas City, MO: William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 1973), 17.
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), 109.
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), 4, fig. 2.
