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Covered Jar

CultureChinese
Date8th century C.E.
MediumStoneware with suffused glaze
DimensionsOverall: 11 1/2 × 3 15/16 inches (29.21 × 10 cm)
Credit LinePurchase: acquired through the generosity of Mrs. DeVere Dierks in memory of Ruth Dierks Konstantinou
Object numberF80-34 A,B
On View
On view
Gallery Location
  • 224
Collections
Exhibition History

A Bountiful Decade: Selected Acquisitions, 1977–1987, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Mo, 14 October – 6 December 1987.

Hare's Fur, Tortoiseshell, and Partridge Feathers: Chinese Brown-and-Black-Glazed Ceramics, 400-1400, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Harvard University Art Museums, Harvard University, December 23, 1995 - March 10, 1996; China House Gallery, April 20 - July 13, 1996; Elvehjem Museum of Art, November 9, 1996 - January 19, 1997.

Provenance

Sotheby's New York;

Purchased from Sotheby's New York by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1980.

Published References

obert Lockhart Hobson, The George Eumorfopoulos Collection: Catalogue of the Chinese, Corean, and Persian pottery and Porcelain, vol. 6 (London: E. Benn, 1925-1928), pl.LII, no. 438 (repro.).

Sotheby’s Fine Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art (New York, November 8, 1980) (repro.).

Roger Ward, ed., A Bountiful Decade: Selected Acquisitions, 1977-1987, exh. cat. (Kansas City, MO: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1987), 62-63, no. 22 (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), 294 (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), 327, no. 137 (repro.).

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