Belthook with Zodiacal Designs

CultureChinese

Date5th-3rd century B.C.E.

MediumGilt bronze inlaid with turquoise

DimensionsOverall: 8 5/16 inches (21.11 cm)

Credit LineGift of Mr. and Mrs. Myron S. Falk Jr. in honor of Laurence Sickman

Object number77-9

On View

On view

Gallery Location

Collections

East Asian Art

Terms

Provenance

Myron S. Falk, Jr. (1906-1992) and Pauline B. Falk (1910-2000), New York, by 1952-1977 [1];

Their gift to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1977.

NOTES:

[1] This object is included in Florance Waterbury, Bird-Deities in China (Ascona: Artibus Asiae, 1952), 109, 188, plate XXX, as in the Falk collection. A photograph of this object, numbered 323, is in the Smithsonian National Museum of Asian Art Archives, FSA.A2002.03, Pauline B. and Myron S. Falk, Jr. Papers, Box 57, folder 12, copy in Nelson-Atkins curatorial files.

Published References

William Charles White, Tombs of Old Lo-yang: A Record of the Construction and Contents of a Group of Royal tombs at Chin-ts'un, Honan, Probably Dating 550 B.C. (Shanghai: Kelly & Walsh, 1934), no. 145a, pl.59 (repro.).

Florance Waterbury, Bird-Deities in China (Ascona: Artibus Asiae, 1952), 109, 188, pl. 30 (repro.).

The Nelson Gallery & Atkins Museum Bullentin, vol. v (Kansas City: Nelson Gallery and Atkins Museum, 1978), 26, no. 4 (repro.).

Archives of Asian Art, vol. XXXII (New York, The Asia Society, 1979), 93, fig. 30 (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), 283 (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), 296, no.44 (repro.).

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