Large Kneading Bowl
Original Language Title松絵大こね鉢
Former TitleKaratsu Ware Bowl
Manufacturer
Yumino Kiln
(Japanese)
Date18th century
MediumGlazed stoneware (Karatsu ware)
DimensionsOverall: 7 1/4 × 22 inches (18.42 × 55.88 cm)
Credit LinePurchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust
Object number33-1587
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Exhibition History18th Century Japanese Folk Pottery, Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence, RI, March 11- April 19, 1959.
Origins: Collecting to Create the Nelson-Atkins, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, August 14, 2021-March 6, 2022.
This type of bowl was first used in the processing of wax. Later it was used for kneading dough products such as soba (buckwheat) noodles. The bowl possesses a naïve, rustic beauty, with its rough and vigorous painting of a pine tree over a clay surface covered with white slip. Objects like this have long been admired by fans of Japanese folk arts.
With Mr. Izumi, Kyoto, Japan, by December 28, 1933 [1];
Purchased from Izumi, through Langdon Warner, by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1933.
NOTES:
[1] According to a shipping invoice dated December 29, 1933, Nelson-Atkins curatorial files.
The
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, “Japanese Utilitarian Pottery” in “Special
Exhibitions,” Calendar (Kansas City,
MO), April 1985.
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