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Unearthing China’s Past, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA, November 15, 1973 – February 15, 1974, no. 49.
With Dr. Otto Burchard, Peiping (modern-day Beijing), China, by April 23, 1933-1934 [1];
Purchased from Burchard, through Laurence Sickman, by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1934.
NOTES:
[1] Laurence Sickman, Nelson-Atkins Advisor on Asian Art, first wrote to Langdon Warner about a group of tomb objects, including this piece, on April 23, 1933: “It is what I believe to be a complete set of Han tomb pottery of such high quality and such beauty that it is really quite unbelievable. …there are in all twenty-one pieces all from the same tomb, near Shan Chou, north-west Honan.” Harvard Pusey Library, Langdon Warner Archive, Box 12, Folder 19, copy in Nelson-Atkins curatorial files.
Sekai bijutsu zenshū, vol. 13, China, No. 2, (Tokyo: Kadokawa Shoten, 1962), 128, (repro.).
A Pictorail Encyclopedia of Oriental Arts, China, (Tokyo: Kadokawa Shoten, ed., 1969), vol. 1, pl. 135 (repro.).
Jan Fontein and Tung Wu, Unearthing China’s Past, (Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 1973), 115, no. 49 (repro.).
William Watson, Handbook of the Collections of Early Chinese Antiquities, (London: British Museum, 1963), 47, (repro.).
William Watson, L’Art de L’Ancienne Chine, (Paris: Editions d’Art Lucien Mazenod, 1979), 398, no. 300 (repro.).
