Goblet (jia) by an unidentified artist
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Goblet (jia)

Unattributed · Late Shang dynasty, 13th century–1046 B.C.

Provenance

Ownership history

  1. Parish-Watson and Company, New York, 1922; 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] Dec. 15, 1926; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, Dec. 15, 1926.

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), 6, cat. 2, pl. 2 (ill.).
  • C. F. Kelley and D. K. Wilson, “Bronzes Recently Acquired for the Buckingham Collection,” <em>Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago</em> 21 (Nov.–Dec. 1927): 98–99, 114–116, fig. 3.
  • Sueji Umehara, <em>Shina kodō seikwa</em>, pt. 1, vol. 1 (Osaka: Yamanaka and Co., 1933), pl. 68.
  • Charles Fabens Kelley and Ch’en Meng-chia, <em>Chinese Bronzes from the Buckingham Collection</em> (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago / Lakeside Press, 1946), 26, 148, pl. 8.
  • Matsumaru Michio, <em>In Shu seidōki bunrui zuroku: A Corpus of Chinese Bronzes in American Collections</em> (Tokyo: Kyoku Shuin, 1977), 64, 599.
  • Minao Hayashi, <em>In Shu jidai seidōki no kenkyū (In Shu jidai seidōki sōran ichi) [Conspectus of Yin and Zhou Bronzes]</em>, vol. 1, pt. 2 (Tokyo: Yoshikawa Kobunkan, 1984), 196, pl. 60.
  • Elinor Pearlstein and James T. Ulak, <em>Asian Art in the Art Institute of Chicago</em> (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1993), 16–17 (ill.).
  • 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), 14–15, pl. 1.10a–b.

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