Ladle

9th century

Chinese

Gilded silver

12 1/8 × 3 1/2 × 2 3/8in. (30.8 × 8.9 × 6cm)

Eugene Fuller Memorial Collection

45.66

Photo: iocolor, LLP

Now on view at the Asian Art Museum

Resources

Exhibition HistoryLos Angeles, California, Los Angeles County Museum, "Arts of T'ang Dynasty", 1957(1957)

Dayton, Ohio, Dayton Art Institute, Chinese Gold and Silver from the Tang Dynasty in American Collections, Nov.3, 1984-Sept. 22, 1985 (New York, NY, Cooper-Hewitt Museum, Feb. 5 - Apr. 21, 1985; Northampton, MA, George Walter Vincent Smith Art Museum, June 1 - July 14, 1985; and Birmingham Museum of Art)

Seattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, Chinese Metalwork, July 12 - Nov. 27, 1988.

Seattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, Timeless Grandeur: Art from China, Apr. 25, 2002 - June 12, 2005.

Seattle, Washington, Seattle Asian Art Museum, Boundless: Stories of Asian Art, Feb. 8, 2020 - ongoing.

Published ReferencesSullivan, Michael. "On the Origin of Landscape Representation in Chinese Art." Archives of the Chinese Art Society of America, Vol. 7 (1953): p. 54-65.

Sheets, Hilarie M. "Reframing the question, 'What is Asian art?'" The Art Newspaper, no. 320 (February 2020): p. 25, reproduced.

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