Bottle

CultureChinese

DateTang dynasty (618-906 C.E.)

MediumWhite stoneware covered with finely crackled greenish neutral glaze

DimensionsOverall: 8 1/2 × 5 inches (21.59 × 12.7 cm)

Credit LinePurchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust

Object number32-48/1

On View

On view

Gallery Location

Collections

East Asian Art

Terms

DescriptionVase with a long tapering neck, a wide flat lip, and a pale green glaze.Exhibition History

Exhibition History

Masterpieces of Chinese Art, Philbrook Art Center, Tulsa, OK, 1947.

Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond. November 19, 1954 - January 2, 1955.

The Arts of Man, Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, October - December 1962.

Provenance

With Yen Ku Chai, by January 21, 1932 [1];

Purchased from Yen Ku Chai, through Laurence Sickman (1906-1988), by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1932.

NOTES:

[1] This is a "T'ang bottle, neutral glaze" included on a list of purchases made in China in 1932 by Laurence Sickman, Nelson-Atkins advisor on Asian art. Harvard Pusey Library, Langdon Warner Personal Archive, box 15, folder 30, copy in Nelson-Atkins curatorial files.

Published References

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), 79 (repro.).

Sherman E. Lee, “The Changing Taste for Chinese Ceramics” Apollo, special issue for the Asian art collection in the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Vol. XCVII, no. 133 (March 1973), 42, no. 5 (repro.).

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