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Bell (nao)
Unattributed · Western Zhou dynasty (1046–771 B.C.)
Provenance
Ownership history
- MacDermid Parish-Watson (died 1941), 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. 1921; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1924.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Literature
Published references
- Berthold Laufer, <em>Archaic Chinese Bronzes of the Shang, Chou, and Han Periods in the Collections of Mr. Parish-Watson</em> (New York, 1922), 13–14, pl. VI.
- Osvald Sirén, <em>A History of Early Chinese Art</em> (London: E. Benn, 1929), pl. 53A.
- Sueji Umehara, <em>Shina kodō seikwa</em>, pt. 1, vol. 2 (Osaka: Yamanaka and Co., 1933), pl. 159.
- Charles Fabens Kelley and Ch’en Meng-chia, <em>Chinese Bronzes from the Buckingham Collection</em> (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1946), 78–79, pl. XLIII.
- Cheng Mengjia, “A Chronological Study of Western Zhou Bronzes (V),” <em>Kaogu xuebao</em> 3 (1956), pl. 13 left.
- Virginia C. Kane, “The Independent Bronze Industries in the South of China Contemporary with the Shang and Western Chou Dynasties,” <em>Archives of the Chinese Art Society of America</em> 28 (1973–74): 77–107, fig. 30.
- Minao Hayashi, <em>In Shu jidai seidōki no kenkyū [Conspectus of Yin and Zhou Bronzes]</em>, vol. 1, pt. 2 (Tokyo: Yoshikawa Kobunkan, 1984), 381.
- Lothar Alexander von Falkenhausen, “Ritual Music in Bronze Age China: An Archaeological Perspective” (PhD diss., Harvard University, 1988), 297.
- Elinor Pearlstein, “The Chinese Collection at the Art Institute of Chicago: Foundations of Scholarly Taste,” <em>Orientations</em> (June 1993): 36–47, fig. 9.
- 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), 13, pl. 1.8.
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