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Lid to Box in the Form of a Ram

CultureChinese
Datelate 7th-early 8th century C.E.
MediumSilver with parcel gilt
DimensionsOverall: 3 1/8 inches (7.94 cm)
Credit LinePurchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust
Object number50-10 A
On View
On view
Gallery Location
  • 224
Collections
Exhibition History

China Institute, New York. April 27 - June 1951.

Sculpture in Silver, American Federation of Arts, September 1955 - April 1956; Brooklyn Museum.

Chinese Gold and Silver from the Tang Dynasty from American Collections, Dayton Art Institute, November 3, 1984 - January 6, 1985; Cooper-Hewitt Museum, New York, February 5 -April 21, 1985; George Walter Vincent Smith Art Museum, Springfield, MA, June 1 - July 14, 1985; Birmingham, AL, Alabama Museum of Art, August 9 - September 22, 1985.

Provenance

Heeramaneck Galleries;

Purchased from Heeramaneck Galleries by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1950.

Published References

Archives of Asian art, vol. IV (New York: Asia Society, 1950), 68, fig.12 (repro.).

“Sliver for new Sculpture,” Art news (September, 1955), 25, ill (repro.).

“3000 years of Sculpture,” Think (March 1956), 25, ill (repro.).

Bo Gyllensvard, “T’ang Gold and Silver,” Bulletin of the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities, no. 29 (Stockholm: Museum, 1957), pl. 11d, ill (repro.).

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), 181 (repro.).

Asia Magazine (Hong Kong: July 4, 1965), 8 (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), 91 (repro.).

William Watson, L’art de l’Ancienn Chine (Editions d’Art Lucien Mazenod, Paris: 1979), p.370, pl.177 (repro.).

Clarence W. Kelly, Chinese Gold and Silver in American Collections: Tang Dynasty A.D. 618-907 (Dayton, Ohio: Dayton Art Institute, 1984), 39, 72 (repro.).

M.S. Young, “Letter from USA,” Apollo (January, 1985) 60, fig. 6 (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), 337 (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), 325, no. 128 (repro.).

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