Ritual Wine Vessel, type lei
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Decourerte de I’ Asie, Cernuschi Museum, Paris, May 14-August 1954.
With Michelangelo Piacentini (d. 2005), Tokyo, by 1947 [1];
His gift to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1947.
NOTES:
[1] Piacentini was an Italian art historian based in Tokyo after the Second World War. He studied Italian Renaissance art, while collecting and dealing in Asian objects.
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), 131 (repro.).
Sueji Umehara, Shina kogyoku zuroku (Kyoto, Japan: Kuwana Bunseido, Showa 30, 1955), pl. LVI (repro.).
Cheng te-k’un, Archeology in China, Shang China, vol. 2 (Cambridge, England: 1960), 271, pl. 11, fig. b (repro.).
Sueji Umehara, “A General Introduction to the Ancient Chinese Bronze I-Ch’I,” Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica, vol. XLII, part Iv (1971), Pl. 10, no. 2 (repro.).
