Provenance Information

1920s - collection of Johannes Hellner, Stockholm (1866-1947). (1980s with private dealer, New York); 1980s - mid 1990s private collection, Texas (purchased through private dealer); (mid 1990s - late 1990s with Ralph M. Chait Galleries, New York (on consignment from private collector)); late 1990s - 2008 collection of Eunice Shatzman, Class of 1949, and Herbert Shatzman (d. 2014), Durham (purchased through Chait Galleries); 2008 Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca (gift of Eunice and Herbert Shatzman)

Exhibition Information

Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, Heavenly Earth: Early Chinese Ceramics from the Shatzman Collection, June 5 – August 22, 2004

Publication Information

Avril, Ellen. Heavenly Earth: Early Chinese Ceramics from the Shatzman Collection [an exh. cat.] (Ithaca: Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, 2004); ref. p. 45, cat. no. 40, color illus. p. 45.

Section of the AAMD Guidelines relied upon for the exception to 1970

Gift or bequest expected or on loan prior to 2008

Explain why the object fits the exception set forth above

The donors pledged part of their collection, including this object, to the museum prior to 2008, as per correspondence dated 2001, on file.