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CultureChinese
Date10th century B.C.E.
MediumJade (nephrite)
DimensionsOverall: 7 13/16 × 15/16 × 1/2 inches (19.84 × 2.38 × 1.27 cm)
Credit LineGift of C. T. Loo
Object number49-2
On View
On view
Gallery Location
  • 232
Collections
Exhibition History

Exhibition in honor of René Grousset, Cernuschi Museum, Paris, May 14 - August 1954.

Provenance

With C. T. Loo, Inc., New York, by 1949;

Their gift to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1949.

Published References

La Découverte de l'Asie : hommage à René Grousset : ville de Paris, Musée Cernuschi (Paris: Le Musée, May 1954) (repro.).

“Museum,” Tokyo National Museum (September 1954) (repro.).

William Willetts, Chinese Art (Harmondsworth, Middlesex; Baltimore, Md.: Penguin Books, 1958), pl. 1 c (repro.).

Toho Gakuho, Minao Hayashi, “Ceremonial Jade in Ancient China,” Journal of Oriental Studies, no. 40 (Kyoto: March 1969), Ill (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), 21 (repro.).

Marc F. Wilson, “Form and Design: Chinese Archaic Bronzes and Jades” Apollo, special issue for the Asian art collection in the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Vol. XCVII, no. 133 (March 1973), 53, pl. 12 (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), 293, pl. 31 (repro.).
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