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Basin with Figural Feet (Lu)
Unattributed · Eastern Zhou dynasty, Warring States period (771–222 B.C.), 5th/4th century B.C.
Provenance
Ownership history
- Yamanaka and Company, New York; 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] Oct. 16, 1929; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, Oct. 16, 1929.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- Osaka, Museum of Oriental Ceramics, <em>Chicago Bijutsukan Meihinten: Masterpieces of Chinese Arts from the Art Institute of Chicago</em>, 1989, cat. 10; Atami, MOA Museum of Art; Tokyo, Idemitsu Museum of Art.
Literature
Published references
- Charles Fabens Kelley, “Human Motifs on Chinese Bronzes,” <em>Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago</em> 29 (September–October 1935): 67–70, figs. 4–5.
- Ludwig Bachhofer, “Bronze Figures of the Late Chou Period,” <em>The Art Bulletin</em> 23 (December 1941): 327, fig. 22.
- Ch’en Meng-chia, ed., <em>Chinese Bronzes in Foreign Collections</em>, 1st series (Peiping: National Library of Peiping, 1946), 63, pl. 14.
- Charles Fabens Kelley and Ch’en Meng-chia, <em>Chinese Bronzes from the Buckingham Collection</em> (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1946), 84–85, 159, pl. XLVII.
- Minao Hayashi, <em>In Shu jidai seidōki no kenkyū [Studies of Shang and Zhou Dynasty Bronzes]</em>, vol. 1 (In Shu seidōki sōran ichi), (Tokyo: Yoshikawa Kobunkan, 1984), 98, fig. 59:2.
- <em>Chicago Bijutsukan Meihenten: Masterpieces of Chinese Arts from the Art Institute of Chicago</em>, exh. cat. (Museum of Oriental Ceramics, Osaka; also exhibited at MOA Museum of Art, Atami; Idemitsu Museum of Art, Tokyo, 1989), cat. 10.
- Colin Mackenzie, “Adaptation and Invention: Chinese Bronzes of the Eastern Zhou and Han Periods,” <em>Orientations</em> (June 1993): 59–71, fig. 15.
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