Provenance Information

Caseset Limited (Anthony Carter), London, England; 1998 - 2014 Edith J. Spink (1921–2011), St. Louis, MO, USA, purchased from Caseset Limited; 2014 Saint Louis Art Museum, bequest of Edith J. and C. C. Johnson Spink

Exhibition Information

None known.

Publication Information

None known.

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.

Provenance Information

Kaikodo Ltd., Kamakura, Japan; 1995 - 2014
Edith J. Spink (1921–2011), St. Louis, MO, USA, purchased from Kaikodo; 2014 Saint Louis Art Museum, bequest of Edith J. and C. C. Johnson Spink

Exhibition Information

None known.

Publication Information

None known.

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.

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

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).

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.

Provenance Information

J. J. Lally & Co. (James J. Lally), New York, NY;
Edith J. Spink (1921–2011), St. Louis, MO, purchased from J. J. Lally & Co.; 2014 Saint Louis Art Museum, bequest of Edith J. and C. C. Johnson Spink

Exhibition Information

None known.

Publication Information

None known.

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.

Provenance Information

between 1984 and 1996 - 2007 collection of John (1924-2007) and Stella Fessler McCoy (b. 1934), Shanghai and Arlington, VA (purchased in Shanghai, probably at the Fleet Market); 2007 - 2012 collection of Stella Fessler McCoy, Arlington (sole owner after death of John McCoy); 2012 Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca (gift of Stella McCoy)

Exhibition Information

None

Publication Information

None

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 mirror is one of a small but significant collection of Chinese mirrors, which demonstrates the importance of this medium and form in the Chinese culture, particularly when held in dialogue with similar objects from other dynasties and/or cultures.

Provenance Information

between 1984 and 1996 - 2007 collection of John (1924-2007) and Stella Fessler McCoy (b. 1934), Shanghai and Arlington, VA (purchased in Shanghai, probably at the Fleet Market); 2007 - 2012 collection of Stella Fessler McCoy, Arlington (sole owner after death of John McCoy); 2012 Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca (gift of Stella McCoy)

Exhibition Information

None

Publication Information

None

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 mirror is one of a small but significant collection of Chinese mirrors, which demonstrates the importance of this medium and form in the Chinese culture, particularly when held in dialogue with similar objects from other dynasties and/or cultures.

Provenance Information

between 1984 and 1996 - 2007 collection of John (1924-2007) and Stella Fessler McCoy (b. 1934), Shanghai and Arlington, VA (purchased in Shanghai, probably at the Fleet Market); 2007 - 2012 collection of Stella Fessler McCoy, Arlington (sole owner after death of John McCoy); 2012 Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca (gift of Stella McCoy)

Exhibition Information

None

Publication Information

None

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 mirror is one of a small but significant collection of Chinese mirrors, which demonstrates the importance of this medium and form in the Chinese culture, particularly when held in dialogue with similar objects from other dynasties and/or cultures.

Provenance Information

between 1984 and 1996 - 2007 collection of John (1924-2007) and Stella Fessler McCoy (b. 1934), Shanghai and Arlington, VA (purchased in Shanghai, probably at the Fleet Market); 2007 - 2012 collection of Stella Fessler McCoy, Arlington (sole owner after death of John McCoy); 2012 Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca (gift of Stella McCoy)

Exhibition Information

None

Publication Information

None

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 mirror is one of a small but significant collection of Chinese mirrors, which demonstrates the importance of this medium and form in the Chinese culture, particularly when held in dialogue with similar objects from other dynasties and/or cultures.

Provenance Information

between 1984 and 1996 - 2007 collection of John (1924-2007) and Stella Fessler McCoy (b. 1934), Shanghai and Arlington, VA (purchased in Shanghai, probably at the Fleet Market); 2007 - 2012 collection of Stella Fessler McCoy, Arlington (sole owner after death of John McCoy); 2012 Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca (gift of Stella McCoy)

Exhibition Information

None

Publication Information

None

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 mirror is one of a small but significant collection of Chinese mirrors, which demonstrates the importance of this medium and form in the Chinese culture, particularly when held in dialogue with similar objects from other dynasties and/or cultures.

Provenance Information

between 1984 and 1996 - 2007 collection of John (1924-2007) and Stella Fessler McCoy (b. 1934), Shanghai and Arlington, VA (purchased in Shanghai, probably at the Fleet Market); 2007 - 2012 collection of Stella Fessler McCoy, Arlington (sole owner after death of John McCoy); 2012 Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca (gift of Stella McCoy)

Exhibition Information

None

Publication Information

None

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 mirror is one of a small but significant collection of Chinese mirrors, which demonstrates the importance of this medium and form in the Chinese culture, particularly when held in dialogue with similar objects from other dynasties and/or cultures.