Provenance Information

acquired by J.J. Lally in Hong Kong; sold by J.J. Lally to anonymous collector, 2003; anonymous collector, by gift to San Antonio Museum of Art, 2022.

Exhibition Information

N/a

Publication Information

Not previously published.

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

Cumulative facts and circumstances

Explain why the object fits the exception set forth above

This gift was accompanied by the donor's purchase receipt from J. J. Lally dating to 2003. SAMA accepted the object with incomplete provenance to make it publicly accessible. This sculpture of a boar expands SAMA's small collection of the Northern Wei dynasty (386-535).

Provenance Information

Purchased from R. H. Ellsworth, Ltd., New York, by Florence and Herbert Irving, New York, in 1988; Collection of Florence and Herbert Irving, New York from 1988 to 2015, on loan to The Metropolitan Museum of Art from 1988 until donation to The Metropolitan Museum of Art in 2015.

Exhibition Information

On view continuously since 1988 in the Charlotte C. Weber Galleries for the Arts of Ancient China at The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Publication Information

Knauer, Elfriede Regina. The Camel's Load in Life and Death : Iconography and Ideology of Chinese Pottery Figurines from Han to Tang and their Relevance to Trade along the Silk Routes. Zurich: Akanthus, 1998, pp. 106–07, figs. 73a, b.
Published on The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s online collection database.
http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/49543?sortBy=Relevance&ft=2015.500.7.5&offset=0&rpp=20&pos=1 as of July 2015

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 Camel and Rider has been on long-term loan to The Metropolitan Museum of Art since 1988.

Provenance Information

Purchased from R. H. Ellsworth, Ltd., New York, by Florence and Herbert Irving, New York, in 1988; Collection of Florence and Herbert Irving, New York from 1988 to 2015, on loan to The Metropolitan Museum of Art from 1988 until donation to The Metropolitan Museum of Art in 2015.

Exhibition Information

On view continuously since 1988 in the Charlotte C. Weber Galleries for the Arts of Ancient China at The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Publication Information

Published on The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s online collection database.
http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/49544?sortBy=Relevance&ft=2015.500.7.6&offset=0&rpp=20&pos=1 as of July 2015

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 Seated Falconer has been on long-term loan to The Metropolitan Museum of Art since 1988.

Provenance Information

Purchased from R. H. Ellsworth, Ltd., New York, by Florence and Herbert Irving, New York, in 1988; Collection of Florence and Herbert Irving, New York from 1988 to 2015, on loan to The Metropolitan Museum of Art from 1988 until donation to The Metropolitan Museum of Art in 2015.

Exhibition Information

The work is exhibited at The Metropolitan Museum, New York in the Charlotte C. Weber Galleries, from May 1988 to present.

Publication Information

Published on The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s online collection database.

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 Seated Falconer has been on long-term loan to The Metropolitan Museum of Art since 1988.

Provenance Information

Unknown prior to gift by Dr. Sze.

Exhibition Information

Linking Asia exhibition, Denver Art Museum, 12/17/2017 – 4/1/2018; Asian Galleries, Denver Art Museum, 10/2022 - Present

Publication Information

Jiao, Tianlong. Caruso, Laura ed. Linking Asia: Art, Trade, and Devotion. Denver Art Museum. 2017:176.

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

Cumulative facts and circumstances

Explain why the object fits the exception set forth above

At the time of this gift the DAM held very few pieces of this period and style, and significant examples are rare. Questions arose about the stela's authenticity, so it entered the DAM's collection as a non-accessioned piece. Now accessioned into the DAM's permanent collection, it is hoped further research will offer more information.

Provenance Information

Private collection in Taiwan held base of Funerary Couch prior to February 2004; Private collection in Hong Kong held panels of the Funerary Couch prior to February 2004; Gisele Croës, Arts d'Extreme-Orient gallery, Brussels, Belgium, February 2004; Danese, Gisele Croës’ temporary gallery in New York, NY, March 2004; Shipped to Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (VMFA), Richmond, Virginia, May 2004. VMFA purchased this work in May of 2005 in order to bring it into a publicly accessible collection.
Since 2010, the work has been highlighted in the Collections section of VMFA’s website. The work has been on display in VMFA’s East Asian Gallery

Exhibition Information

The work was exhibited in “Ritual Objects and Early Buddhist Art” , Gallery Danese, 41 E. 57th Street, New York, NY, March 22 – 31, 2004; it was published in the accompanying catalogue:

Publication Information

Ritual Objects and Early Buddhist Art, Gisele Croës, Arts d'Extreme-Orient, Brussels, pp. 23-55, ill. 25-55.

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

Cumulative facts and circumstances

Explain why the object fits the exception set forth above

This acquisition was made prior to the AAMD guidelines of 2008. In this case, VMFA decided to make an exception to the 1970 rule in order to bring this object into a free, publicly accessible, educational institution, where it could be studied, displayed, and publicized.