Stem Cup

CultureChinese

Date14th century

MediumGlazed porcelain with relief and incised decoration

DimensionsOverall: 4 5/8 × 5 inches (11.75 × 12.7 cm)

Credit LinePurchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust

Object number35-533

On View

On view

Gallery Location

Collections

East Asian Art

Terms

DescriptionWhite porcelain with everted rim; interior decorated with dragon and cloud design in relief, under a light blue glaze; exterior, brownish black glaze.Exhibition History

Exhibition History

Ming Blue and White, Philadelphia Museum of Art, October 29-December 3, 1949.

Chinese Art Under the Mongols, Yale University Art Gallery, 1968-1969; Albright-Knox Gallery, Buffalo, NY; Cleveland Museum of Art, October 1-November 24, 1968; Asia House Gallery, New York.

Ming Porcelain, China Institute in America, New York, October 1970-January 1971.

Jingdezhen Wares: The Yuan Evolution, Fung Ping Shan Museum, University of Hong Kong, March 15-May 24, 1984.

Provenance

Purchased through Laurence Sickman by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1935.

Published References

Ross E. Taggart, George L. McKenna, and Marc F. Wilson, eds., Handbook of the Collections in The William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, Kansas City, Missouri, vol. II, Art of the Orient. (Kansas City, MO: William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 1973), 88 (repro.).

Apollo, special issue for the Asian art collection in the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Vol. XCVII, no. 133 (March 1973), 45, no. 10 (repro.).

Roger Ward and Patricia J. Fidler, eds., The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: A Handbook of the Collection (New York: Hudson Hills Press, in association with Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1993), 298 (repro.).

Deborah Emont Scott, ed., The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: A Handbook of the Collection, 7th ed. (Kansas City, MO: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 2008), 354, no. 220 (repro.).

Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Ceramics: highlights from the collection of the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art (The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art Museum, 2016), 21 (repro.).

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