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Covered Jar (Hu) 东周时期鎏金错银壶 by an unidentified artist
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Covered Jar (Hu) 东周时期鎏金错银壶

Unattributed · Eastern Zhou dynasty, Warring States period (480–221 B.C.), late 4th/3rd century B.C.

Provenance

Ownership history

  1. Yamanaka & 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] Jun. 2, 1930; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, Jun. 2, 1930.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

Exhibition history

  • New York, Asia House Gallery, <em>Ritual Vessels of Bronze Age China</em>, 1968, cat. 72.
  • Osaka, Museum of Oriental Ceramics, <em>Chicago Bijutsukan Meihinten: Masterpieces of Chinese Arts from the Art Institute of Chicago</em>, 1989, cat. 13; also exhibited: Atami, MOA Museum of Art; Tokyo, Idemitsu Museum of Art.

Literature

Published references

  • <em>Annual Report</em> (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1930), 26.
  • Sueji Umehara, <em>Rakuyō kinson kōbo shūei [Catalogue of Selected Relics from the Ancient Tombs of Chin-ts’un, Luoyang]</em>, rev. ed. (Kyoto: [n.p.], 1944), 23–24, pl. 23:1 (showing the state before cleaning).
  • Ludwig Bachhofer, <em>A Short History of Chinese Art</em> (New York: Pantheon, 1946), 49, fig. 39.
  • Charles Fabens Kelley and Ch’en Meng-chia, <em>Chinese Bronzes from the Buckingham Collection</em> (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1946), 100–101, 160, pl. LVIII.
  • Seiichi Mizuno, <em>Bronzes and Jades of Ancient China</em> (Tokyo: Nihon Keizai, 1959), 25, 30, 56, pl. 141.
  • Max Loehr, <em>Ritual Vessels of Bronze Age China</em> exh. cat. (Asia House Gallery, New York, 1968), cat. 72, 160.
  • Matsumaru Michio, <em>In Shu seidōki bunrui zuroku: A Corpus of Chinese Bronzes in American Collections</em> (Tokyo: Kyoku Shuin, 1977), 136, pl. 733, no. 1048.
  • Robert D. Jacobsen, "Inlaid Bronzes of Pre-Imperial China" (PhD diss., University of Minnesota, 1984), 78–87, 93–94, 166–169.
  • <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. 13.
  • Colin Mackenzie, “Adaptation and Invention: Chinese Bronzes of the Eastern Zhou and Han Periods,” <em>Orientations</em> (June 1993): 59–71, fig. 17.
  • Elinor Pearlstein and James T. Ulak, <em>Asian Art in the Art Institute of Chicago</em> (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago/Harry N. Abrams, 1993), 25 (ill.), 147.

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