Jade Scabbard Fitting

With Tsun Ku Chai, Liulichang, Peking (modern-day Beijing), China, by April 30, 1934 [1];

Purchased from Tsun Ku Chai, through Laurence Sickman and probably through Dr. Otto Burchard, by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1934 [2].

NOTES:

[1] Sickman's purchase record, Nelson-Atkins Archives, RG80-15 William Rockhill Nelson Trust Office Files, box 1a, Art Invoices/Vouchers 1934.

[2] Tsun Ku Chai and Otto Burchard are both listed as vendors for this object in the museum's files. Sickman, the Nelson-Atkins's purchasing agent in Peking, frequently bought objects from vendors using Burchard as an intermediary. It is possible this was the case for the acquisition of this object. See Nelson-Atkins Archives, Sickman Miscellaneous, box 3, folder Shipping 1934 and MSS001 Laurence Sickman Papers, box 10, folder 4.