Large Shallow Bowl with Bird-and-Flower Design

Original Language Title有田青手古九谷大皿

CultureJapanese

Date1660s

MediumGlazed porcelain with enamel decoration (Arita ware; Aode Ko-Kutani style)

DimensionsOverall: 4 5/8 × 17 7/8 inches (11.76 × 45.4 cm)

Credit LinePurchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust

Object number64-28

On View

Not on view

Collections

East Asian Art

Terms

Exhibition History

200 Years of Japanese Porcelain, City Art Museum of Saint Louis, St. Louis, MO, Oct. 9-Nov. 15, 1970; The Nelson Gallery-Atkins Museum, Kansas City, MO, Dec. 3, 1970-Jan. 3, 1971, no. 65.

Gallery Label

Fine Kutani wares, like this bowl, would have been used by elite military clans. Characteristically, the enamels are richly colored, and the yellow patterns in the background are reminiscent of gold-leafed screen paintings such as those by Kaihō Yūshō. Recent excavations have revealed that Kutani-ware was manufactured in Arita, Japan’s premier porcelain production center.

Provenance

With Kochukyo Co., Ltd, Tokyo, by 1964;

Purchased from Kochukyo Co., Ltd by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1964.

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: The William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 1973), 115.

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 The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1993), 351.

Deborah Emont Scott, ed., The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: A Handbook of the Collection, 7th ed. (Kansas City, MO: The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 2008), no.44, 392.

Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Ceramics: highlights from the collection of the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art (Kansas City, MO: The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art Museum, 2016), 31.

Chinese Art Society of America, Archives of the Chinese Art Society of America, vol.19 (New York: Chinese Art Society of America, 1965), no. 28, 83.

Richard S. Cleveland, 200 Years of Japanese Porcelain (Saint Louis: City Art Museum of Saint Louis, 1970), no. 65, 79.

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