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Water Basin (Jian)
Unattributed · Eastern Zhou dynasty (770–256 B.C.), first half of 5th century B.C.
Provenance
Ownership history
- Yamanaka & Company, Boston; 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] Aug. 16, 1930; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, Aug. 16, 1930.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Literature
Published references
- Sueji Umehara, <em>Shina kodō seikwa</em> (Osaka: Yamanaka and Co., 1933), pt. 1, vol. 3, pl. 175.
- Sueji Umehara, <em>Étude des bronzes Royaumes combattants</em> (Kyoto: The Academy of Oriental Culture Kyoto Institute, 1936), 35, cat. 54, pl. LIV.
- Charles Fabens Kelley and Ch’en Meng-chia, <em>Chinese Bronzes from the Buckingham Collection</em> (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1946), 90–93, 159–160, pls. LI–LIII.
- Charles D. Weber, “Chinese Pictorial Bronze Vessels of the Late Chou Period (Part I, Group III: Bronzes of Li-yu),” <em>Artibus Asiae</em> 28, no. 2–3 (1966): 126–128, fig. 19.
- Charles D. Weber, “Chinese Pictorial Bronze Vessels of the Late Chou Period (Part IV, Group IX: Vessels with a Variety of Pictorial Themes…),” <em>Artibus Asiae</em> 30, no. 2–3 (1968): 163–166, fig. 60.
- Matsumaru Michio,<em> In Shu seidōki bunrui zuroku: A Corpus of Chinese Bronzes in American Collections</em> (Tokyo: Kyoku Shuin, 1977), 156, pl. 842, nos. 1180–1183.
- Colin Mackenzie, “Adaptation and Invention: Chinese Bronzes of the Eastern Zhou and Han Periods,” <em>Orientations</em> (June 1993): 59–71, figs. 12, 12a.
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