Paul Howard Manship

Edwin Murtha, Paul Manship, New York, 1957, no. 32, p. 150 (as Oriental Dancer: Vase)

Exh. Cat., St. Paul, Minnesota Museum of Art, Paul Manship: Changing Taste in America, no. 41, p. 65, no. 41, illustration of another example

John Manship, Paul Manship, New York, 1989, fig. 42, pp. 50-51, illustration of the plaster model

Janis Conner & Joel Rosenkranz, Rediscoveries in American Sculpture: Studio Works, 1893-1939, Austin, Texas, 1989, pp. 135, 142

Susan Rather, Archaism, Modernism, and the Art of Paul Manship, Austin, Texas, 1993, p. 128 (as Vase with Oriental Dancer)

In this elegant bronze vase, Paul Howard Manship brings together motifs from a number of ancient civilizations: the Greek amphora form, the griffin handles inspired by Chinese art and the relief figure inspired by Indian art. One scholar notes that "this is the first of those works by Manship that were influenced by the art of India and China" (Edwin Murtha, Paul Manship, New York, 1957, p. 150).

This model was cast in a series of eight.