Coffered Vault with Carved Dragons, China, Beijing, Zhihua Temple
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With E. A. Punnett & Co., China, by July 1931;
Purchased from E. A. Punnett & Co., through Laurence Sickman, by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1931.
Liu Tun-tseng, “The Ju-lai Tien of Chih-hua Ssu, Peiping,” Bulletin of the Society for Research in Chinese Architecture, vol. III, no. 3 (Peiping, China: Society, September 1932), 1-70, pl.57 (repro.).
“Art Digest,” 8:31 (December 1, 1933), illus(repro.).
The William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, The William Rockhill Nelson Collection, 2nd ed. (Kansas City, MO: William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 1941), 120, fig. 22 (repro.).
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), 157 (repro.).
Jean Gordon Lee, “Chih Hua Ssu,” Philadelphia Museum of Art Bulletin, vol. 53, no.246 (Philadelphia Museum of Art, Winter 1958), 29-32 (repro.).
Xiaoneng Yang, New At The Nelson: Tang Dynasty Dragon Acquired, Nelson-Atkins, Calendar of Events (Kansas City, Missouri: The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1999) (repro.).
Jason Steuber, “Qing Dynasty Emperors Kangxi and Qianlong: Rule though Replication in Architecture and the Arts” in Original Intentions: Essays on Production, Reproduction, and Interpretation in the Arts of China, edited by Nick Pearce and Jason Steuber (Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida, 2012), 138-211, fig. 4.16 (repro.).