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left: 34-33; middle: 40-50; right: 34-32
Hairpin Head
left: 34-33; middle: 40-50; right: 34-32
left: 34-33; middle: 40-50; right: 34-32

Hairpin Head

CultureChinese
DateEastern Han dynasty (25-220 C.E.)
MediumGold
DimensionsOverall: 5/8 × 1 1/16 inches (1.59 × 2.7 cm)
Credit LinePurchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust
Object number34-33
On View
On view
Gallery Location
  • 224
Collections
Exhibition History

Art Institute of Chicago, 1941, Portland (OR) Art Museum. November-December 1952.

The Arts of the Han Dynasty, The Asia Society, New York, February 7-March 26, 1961.

Provenance

Wells Objects of Art, Inc.;

Purchased from Wells Objects of Art, Inc. by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1934.

Published References

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), 180, ( 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), 91, (repro.).

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), 337, ( 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), 305, fig.71, (repro.).

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