Asian Art / 5000 Years, including Property from the Nitta Collection

Asian Art / 5000 Years, including Property from the Nitta Collection

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Two Qingbai water droppers, Yuan dynasty

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Description

depicting boys sat atop sitting and standing xiniu (2)


Height 9.5 cm, 3¾ in. (the larger)

The Mennen and Nancy Williams Collection, nos. 240 and 435.

K. Aga-Oglu, The Williams Collection of Far Eastern Ceramics, Tonnancour Section, Museum of Anthropology, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1975, cat. no. 65 and cover pl.

Four closely related water droppers depicting boys seated atop recumbent xiniu were uncovered from the cargo of the Sinan shipwreck (ca. 1323), and included in the Special Exhibition of Cultural Relics found off Sinan Coast, National Museum of Korea, Seoul, 1977, figs 192, 193, 196, and 197.