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Miniature Cinerary Sarcophagus

CultureChinese
Dateca. 1100
MediumSilver with repousse and engraved decoration
DimensionsOverall: 5 1/8 × 3 7/16 × 7 1/4 inches (13.02 × 8.73 × 18.42 cm)
Credit LinePurchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust
Object number69-10
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Gallery Location
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Provenance

Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc;

Purchased from Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1969.

Published References

Park-Bernet Galleries (New York: April 29, 1969), 17, no. 68, ill (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), 92 (repro.).

Laurence Sickman, “Simplicity and Subtlety: The Decorative Arts in China” Apollo, special issue for the Asian art collection in the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Vol. XCVII, no. 133 (March 1973), 59, no. 4 (repro.).

W. B. R. Neave-Hill, Chinese Ceramics, (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1975), 73, fig. 78 (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), 338 (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), 341, no. 179 (repro.).

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