Object details
Object number
M21s29
Creator(s)
Chinese
Title
Gu
Date
12th century BCE
Medium
Bronze
Description
Stolen in 1990.
Provenance
Purchased by Isabella Stewart Gardner from Parish-Watson & Co., New York for $17,500, through Denman Ross (1853-1935), art collector and design theorist, on 14 December 1922.
Stolen in 1990.
Dimensions
26.5 x 15.6 cm (10 7/16 x 6 1/8 in.)
Additional Dimensions
Weight: 1.114 kg (2 lbs. 7 oz.)
Commentary
Isabella Stewart Gardner kept meticulous records of many of her acquisitions. In keeping with this legacy, object information is continually being reviewed, updated, and enriched in order to give greater access to the collection.
Gallery
Dutch Room
Bibliography
Gilbert Wendel Longstreet and Morris Carter. General Catalogue (Boston, 1935), pp. 183-84, pl. 4.
Betty Chamberlain. “Gothic Room” in Alfred M. Frankfurter (ed). The Gardner Collection (New York, 1946), p. 7. “Notes, Records, Comments.” Gardner Museum Calendar of Events 8, no. 12 (22 Nov. 1964), p. 40. (as Chou perod)
“Notes, Records, Comments.” Gardner Museum Calendar of Events 8, no. 41 (13 Jun. 1965), p. 2.
Yasuko Horioka. "Chinese Sculpture-III." Fenway Court (Jun. 1970), pp. 33-40, nos. 1, 3.
George L. Stout. Treasures from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (Boston, 1969), p. 158, ill.
Yasuko Horioka et al. Oriental and Islamic Art: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (Boston, 1975), pp. 4-8, no. 1, ill.
Rollin van N. Hadley. Museums Discovered: The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. (Ft. Lauderdale, FL, 1981), pp. 194-95, ill.
Michelle C. Wang et al. A Bronze Menagerie: Mat Weights of Early China. Exh. cat. (Boston: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, 2006), p. 20, fig. 3.
Alan Chong and Noriko Murai. Journeys East: Isabella Stewart Gardner and Asia. Exh. cat. (Boston: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, 2009), pp. 54-55 fig. 6, 439.
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