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Tripod Cauldron of Ran (Ran ding)
Unattributed · Late Shang dynasty, 13th–11th century B.C.
Provenance
Ownership history
- Collection of Duan Fang (1861–1911), China. 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. 30, 1928; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, Jan. 30, 1928.
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. 3; Atami, MOA Museum of Art; Tokyo, Idemitsu Museum of Art.
Literature
Published references
- <em>T’ao-Chai chin lu [Tuan Fang Catalog of Chinese Bronzes]</em> (Shanghai, 1908), vol. 1, pl. 18.
- Charles Fabens Kelley, “Bronze and Brass Ornamental Work,” <em>Encyclopaedia Britannica</em>, 14th ed. (New York: Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1932), vol. 4, pl. VIX.
- Sueji Umehara, <em>Shina kodō seikwa</em> (Osaka: Yamanaka and Co., 1933), pt. 1, vol. 2, pl. 88.
- Laurence C. S. Sickman, ed., <em>Oriental Art</em>, Series O, Section II: Early Chinese Art (Newton, MA: The University Prints, 1938), O92.
- Charles Fabens Kelley and Ch’en Meng-chia, <em>Chinese Bronzes from the Buckingham Collection</em> (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1946), 42–43, 149–150, pl. XIX.
- Matsumaru Michio, <em>In Shu seidōki bunrui zuroku: A Corpus of Chinese Bronzes in American Collections</em> (Tokyo: Kyoku Shuin, 1977), 7, 195/R.59, 270.
- Minao Hayashi, <em>In Shu jidai seidōki no kenkyū [Conspectus of Yin and Zhou Bronzes]</em>, vol. 1, pt. 2 (Tokyo: Yoshikawa Kobunkan, 1984), 10.
- <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. 3.
- 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), 18–19, pls. 1.14a–b.
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