Provenance Information

late 1980s or early 1990s with private dealer, Hong Kong; before 2001 - before 2004 E&J Frankel, Ltd., New York (purchased from private dealer); by 2004 - 2008 collection of Eunice and Herbert Shatzman, Durham (purchased from Frankel); 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; Ackland Art Museum, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, North Carolina, February 6 – April 3, 2005

Publication Information

Frankel, Edith J., and James D. Frankel. Wine and Spirits of the Ancestors: Exhibition and Sale March 22nd Through April 28th 2001 [an exh. and sale catalogue] (New York: E & J Frankel Ltd, 2001); ref. p. 60, cat. no. 11, color illus. p. 61.

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. 34, fn58, cat. no. 27, color illus. p. 35. (height of 40.5 cm is correct, but the conversion to inches is incorrect.)

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.