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Wine Cup

CultureChinese
DateHan dynasty (206 B.C.E.-220 C.E.)
MediumBlack and red lacquer
DimensionsOverall: 2 5/16 × 5 5/16 × 6 11/16 inches (5.87 × 13.49 × 16.99 cm)
Credit LinePurchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust
Object number48-36/5
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Provenance

F. P. Musso;

Purchased from F. P. Musso by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1948.

Published References

The William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, The William Rockhill Nelson Collection, 3rd ed. (Kansas City, MO: William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 1949),134, (repro.).

Sueji Umehara, Jih Pen Kung I, no. 8, 1956, “Ancient Chinese Lacquer” pl. 7.

William Y. Willetts, Chinese Art (Harmondsworth, Middlesex; Baltimore, Md.:, Penguin Books 1958): pl.17b.

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), 179, (repro.).

William Y. Willetts, Foundations of Chinese Art (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1965): pl.106.

William Justema, Pleasure of pattern (New York:  Reinhold Book Corp., 1968):62.

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), 25, (repro.).

Apollo, special issue for the Asian art collection in the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Vol. XCVII, no. 133 (March 1973):266, fig. 2, (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), 340, (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, fig. 65, (repro.).

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