Water Ewer (He)

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] Apr. 26, 1930; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, Apr. 26, 1930.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

• Osaka, Museum of Oriental Ceramics, <em>Chicago Bijutsukan Meihinten: Masterpieces of Chinese Arts from the Art Institute of Chicago</em>, 1989, cat. 22; also exhibited: Atami, MOA Museum of Art; Tokyo, Idemitsu Museum of Art.

• <em>Handbook of Oriental Art</em> (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1933), 11, fig. 7.
• Charles Fabens Kelley, “Human Motifs on Chinese Bronzes,” <em>Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago</em> 29 (September–October 1935): 67–70, figs. 6–7.
• “Der Bronzekessel als Gefäß der Han-Zeit,” <em>Pantheon</em> 16 (July–December 1935): 305–307, abb. 1.
• Sueji Umehara, <em>Étude des bronzes Royaumes combattants</em> (Kyoto: The Academy of Oriental Culture Kyoto Institute, 1936), 43–44, pl. LXIII, cat. 63.
• Bernhard Karlgren, “The Date of the Early Dong-So’n Culture,” <em>The Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities Bulletin</em> 14 (Stockholm, 1942): 10, 24, pl. 14, no. 9.
• Charles Fabens Kelley and Ch’en Meng-chia, <em>Chinese Bronzes from the Buckingham Collection</em> (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1946), 108–111, 161, pls. LXII–LXIV.
• Matsumaru Michio, <em>In Shu seidōki bunrui zuroku: A Corpus of Chinese Bronzes in American Collections</em> (Tokyo: Kyoku Shuin, 1977), 73, 639–640, pl. 338.
• Robert A. Jacobsen, "Inlaid Bronzes of Pre-Imperial China" (PhD diss., University of Minnesota, 1984), n. 37.
• Minao Hayashi, <em>In Shu jidai seidōki no kenkyū [Conspectus of Yin and Zhou Bronzes]</em>, vol. 1, pt. 1 (Tokyo: Yoshikawa Kobunkan, 1984), 67.
• <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. 23.
• Colin Mackenzie, “Adaptation and Invention: Chinese Bronzes of the Eastern Zhou and Han Periods,” <em>Orientations</em> (June 1993): 59–71, fig. 14.