Lid with Ring Handle
- 224
Ancient Chinese Bronzes, Asia House Gallery, New York, October 10-December 15, 1968.
With Bluett & Sons, London, by February 1944 [1];
Purchased from Bluett & Sons by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1944.
NOTES:
[1] Curator of Asian Art Laurence Sickman purchased this object while stationed in the UK during his military service in World War II. See Sickman’s letter to Nelson-Atkins Trustee J. C. Nichols, dated February 4, 1944, Nelson-Atkins curatorial files.
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), 131 (repro.).
Max Loehr, Ritual Vessels of Bronze Age China, cat. no. 75 (New York: Asia Society, 1968), pl. 167 (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), 131 (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), 278 (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), 300. No.54 (repro.).
