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 –  Folke Stenbeck Collection.

 –1976 Sotheby Parke-Bernet (London, United Kingdom), auction Jul. 6, 1976, lot 61.

 –1979 Sotheby Parke-Bernet auction 4296, lot 90 or 128 (New York, NY), sold to R.H Ellsworth, Ltd. for the Princeton University Art Museum, 1979.

[Sotheby Parke Bernet?] Sold in London, July 6, 1976, no. 61; ex. Collection Folke Stenbeck.  Following bibliography given:
 Palmgren, “Kansu Mortuary Urns of Ban Shan and Ma Chang Groups,” Paleontologia Sinica, series D, vol. III, fasc. I, pl. XI, no. 5.
 Anderson, “Researches into the Pre-History of the Chinese,” BMFEA, Stockholm, no. 15 (1943), pl. 82, fig. 2. 
Museum purchase from Sotheby Parke Bernet, New York.

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