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Container with Lid

CultureChinese
DateHan dynasty (206 B.C.E.-220 C.E.)
MediumBlack and red lacquer
DimensionsOverall: 4 9/16 x 8 1/4 inches (11.59 x 20.96 cm)
Credit LinePurchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust
Object number48-36/2 A,B
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Exhibition History

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.).

Reproduced (lid only): in E.R Hughes, The Art of Letters, Lu Chi’s “Wen Fu” (New York, Pantheon Books, 1951): pl.vii.

Sueji Umehara, Jih Pen Kun I, no. 8, 1956, “Ancient Chinese Lacquer”, pl. 4.

Paul- David, M., “La Chine et son Expansion des Han aux T’ang,” in L’ Art et l’ Homme, fasc. 13, t. 2, (1956.): ill. 50, fig. 132.

Von Eleanor v. Erdberg Consten, Das Alte China (1958):pl.72.

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

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.).

Werner Speiser, The art of China: spirit and society (New York: Crown, 1961, 1960): 76.

A.F.P. Hussewé, China Im Altertum, (Berlin: Verlag Bei Ullstein, 1963):536 ff color plate.

William Willetts, Foundations of Chinese Art (New York, 1965): pl. 107

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.).

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.64, (repro.).

Provenance

F. P. Musso;

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

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