Vase

CultureChinese

DateWestern Zhou dynasty (1045-771 B.C.E.)

MediumPottery with dark brown glaze

DimensionsOverall: 9 1/8 × 6 1/4 inches (23.18 × 15.88 cm)

Credit LinePurchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust

Object number31-130/6

On View

Not on view

Collections

East Asian Art

Terms

DescriptionVase with round, melon shaped (four lobed) body; tapers to a slender short neck, wide vertical lip at the top.Provenance

Provenance

With by July 1931;

Purchased from by Yamanaka & Co., Osaka, Japan, July 1931 [1];

Purchased from Yamanaka & Co. by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1931.

NOTES:

[1] "Kansas City - Itemized Purchases in China and Japan, 1932," no. B-, Harvard Pusey Library, Langdon Warner Personal Archive, box 15, folder 28, copy in Nelson-Atkins curatorial files.

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