Funerary Urn with Cover
CultureEtruscan
Date200 B.C.E.
MediumTerracotta with traces of polychromy
DimensionsOverall: 21 3/4 × 18 1/2 × 9 inches (55.25 × 46.99 × 22.86 cm)
Credit LinePurchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust
Object number45-59 A,B
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Exhibition HistorySpencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, 1961.
Purchased through Paul Gardner (the museum’s first director) by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1945.
Ross E. Taggart and George L. McKenna, eds., Handbook of the Collections in The William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, Kansas City, Missouri, vol. 1, Art of the Occident, 5th ed. (Kansas City, MO: William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 1973), 42, (repro.).
Theresa Rose Huntsman, “Eternal Personae: Chiusine Cinerary Urns and the Construction of Etruscan Identity” (PhD diss., Washington University, St. Louis, 2014), pp. 64–72, no. 2.38.
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