Garment Hook (Daigou) by an unidentified artist
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Garment Hook (Daigou)

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

Provenance

Ownership history

  1. C. T. Loo 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] Jan. 22, 1931; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, Jan. 22, 1931.

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. 19; Atami, MOA Museum of Art; Tokyo, Idemitsu Museum of Art.

Literature

Published references

  • Charles Fabens Kelley and Ch’en Meng-chia, <em>Chinese Bronzes from the Buckingham Collection</em> (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1946), 104–105, pl. LX.
  • <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. 19.

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