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Bowl

CultureSundi
Date20th century
MediumEarthenware
DimensionsOverall: 6 3/4 × 9 × 9 inches (17.15 × 22.86 × 22.86 cm)
Credit LinePurchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust through the George H. and Elizabeth O. Davis Fund
Object number90-6
On View
Not on view
Collections
Exhibition History
Fired Brilliance: Ceramic Vessels from Zaire, The University of Missouri-Kansas City Gallery of Art, Kansas City, MO, February 11-March 16, 1990, no. 10.
Provenance

With Marc Leo Félix (Tribal Arts SPRL), Brussels, Belgium, no. 10, by March 1990;

Purchased from Félix by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1990.

Published References

Fired Brilliance: Ceramic Vessels from Zaire, exh. cat. (Kansas City, MO: The University of Missouri-Kansas City Gallery of Art, 1990, unpaginated, (repro.).

Newsletter (The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, December 1990): 2, (repro.).

Roger Ward and Patricia J. Fidler, eds., The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: A Handbook of the Collection (New York: Hudson Hills Press, in association with Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1993), 86, (repro.).

Catherine Futter et al., Ceramics: Highlights of the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art (Kansas City, MO: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 2016), 52, (repro.).

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