Object Title
Mirror with Design of Striding Lions amidst Floral Scrolls and Border of Zodiacal Animals
Measurements
7 1/4 x 3/16 inches
Creation Date
late 7th-8th century
Credit Line
Spink Asian Art Collection, Bequest of Edith J. and C. C. Johnson Spink
Museum Name
Culture
Country of Origin
Object Type
Materials / Techniques
Object URL
www.slam.org
Provenance Information
by 1957 - still in 1968 Hugh Doggett Scott, Jr. (1900–1994) and Marian Huntington Chase Scott (1900–1987), Chestnut Hill, PA; C. C. Johnson Spink (1916–1992) and Edith J. Spink (1921–2011), St. Louis, MO; 2014 Saint Louis Art Museum, bequest of Edith J. and C. C. Johnson Spink
Exhibition Information
Los Angeles County Museum, The Arts of the T'ang Dynasty: A Loan Exhibition Organized by the Los Angeles County Museum from Collections in America, the Orient and Europe, January 8–February 17, 1957
Chinese Art from the Collection of the Hon. Hugh Scott: An Exhibition Organized by Mary Washington College of the University of Virginia in Collaboration with the Fredericksburg Gallery of Modern Art, March 24 through April 21, 1968
Chinese Art from the Collection of the Hon. Hugh Scott: An Exhibition Organized by Mary Washington College of the University of Virginia in Collaboration with the Fredericksburg Gallery of Modern Art, March 24 through April 21, 1968
Publication Information
Los Angeles County Museum, The Arts of the T'ang Dynasty: A Loan Exhibition Organized by the Los Angeles County Museum from Collections in America, the Orient and Europe, January 8–February 17, 1957 (Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum, 1957), cat. no. 144 (halftone illustration)
Chinese Art from the Collection of the Hon. Hugh Scott: An Exhibition Organized by Mary Washington College of the University of Virginia in Collaboration with the Fredericksburg Gallery of Modern Art, March 24 through April 21, 1968, foreword by Robert D. Kinsman (Fredericksburg, Va.: Mary Washington College; Fredericksburg, Va.: Fredericksburg Gallery of Modern Art, 1968), front cover (halftone illustration), and p. 7, cat. no. 6 (caption).
Chinese Art from the Collection of the Hon. Hugh Scott: An Exhibition Organized by Mary Washington College of the University of Virginia in Collaboration with the Fredericksburg Gallery of Modern Art, March 24 through April 21, 1968, foreword by Robert D. Kinsman (Fredericksburg, Va.: Mary Washington College; Fredericksburg, Va.: Fredericksburg Gallery of Modern Art, 1968), front cover (halftone illustration), and p. 7, cat. no. 6 (caption).
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
In a letter dated August 16, 1988, C.C. Johnson Spink wrote to a Hong Kong dealer explaining that his purchase was “destined for the St. Louis Art Museum” and that “the collection…will be given to the Museum at some future date.” This object was part of a collection of 215 works of Chinese or Japanese origin, collected by C. C. Johnson Spink and Edith J. Spink from the 1970s through the 1990s. The Museum formally received the collection by bequest in 2014.