Architectural Fitting (Gong)

1. Dr. Berthold Laufer (1874–1934), Germany; sold to Kate Sturges Buckingham (1858–1937), Chicago, [Kate served as executor of her sister Lucy Maud Buckingham's estate and continued expanding Lucy's collection following her death in 1920] Nov. 7, 1923; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, Feb. 20, 1924.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

• Li Mugong, <em>Zhou jinque tushi [Illustrated Commentary on the Zhou Metal Gateway]</em> (Shanghai, 1921).
• Sueji Umehara, <em>Shina kodō seikwa</em>, pt. 3, vol. 1 (Osaka: Yamanaka and Co., 1933), pl. 36.
• Ch’en Meng-chia, ed., <em>Chinese Bronzes in Foreign Collections</em>, 1st series (Peiping: National Library of Peiping, 1946), 11, pl. 91.
• Colin Mackenzie, “Adaptation and Invention: Chinese Bronzes of the Eastern Zhou and Han Periods,” <em>Orientations</em> (June 1993): 59–71, figs. 4–7.
• Elinor Pearlstein, “The Chinese Collection at the Art Institute of Chicago: Foundations of Scholarly Taste,” <em>Orientations</em> (June 1993): 36–47, figs. 10, 11.
• Elinor Pearlstein, “Early Chicago Chronicles of Chinese Art,” in Jason Steuber with Guolong Lai, eds., <em>Collectors, Collections & Collecting the Arts of China: Histories & Challenges</em> (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2014), 16–18, pl. 1.12b–d.