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Wine Flask (Bian Hu)
Unattributed · Han dynasty (206 B.C.–A.D. 220), 1st century B.C./A.D.
Provenance
Ownership history
- Yamanaka 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, 1937 [on loan at the Art Institute of Chicago, Feb. 16, 1937]; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, Sep. 1937.
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. 24; 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: The Art Institute of Chicago, 1946), 138.
- Mizuno Seiichi, ed., Sekai bijutsu zenshū, no. 13: <em>Chūgoku Qin–Han [The Arts of China: Qin and Han Dynasties]</em> (Tokyo: Kadokawa Shoten, 1962), fig. 26.
- <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. 24.
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