Plate

CultureEnglish

Date1760

MediumEarthenware with tin glaze (delftware)

DimensionsOverall: 11 3/4 inches (29.85 cm)

Credit LineGift of Frank P. Burnap

Object number54-43/1

On View

Not on view

Collections

Architecture, Design and Decorative Arts

Terms

DescriptionBlue-white plates painted with Chinese lake scene in dark blue, manganese, and yellow. Crinkled borders decorated in opque white, bianco sopra bianco.Exhibition History

Exhibition History

Cathay Invoked: Chinoiserie, A Celestial Empire in the West, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, June 11-July 31, 1966, no. 38.

The English Potter Prior to 1800, M. H. de Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco, November 18, 1972-February 25, 1973, no cat.

Provenance

Mr. Thomas Murrary Ragg (1897-1953), London, England;

Purchased at his posthumous sale, Fine English Pottery, The T. Murrary Ragg Collection, Sotheby & Co., London, March 23, 1954, lot 35, by Mr. Frank P. Burnap (1861-1957), Kansas City, MO;

His gift to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1954.

Published References

Ross E. Taggart, The Frank P. and Harriet C. Burnap Collection of English pottery in the William Rockhill Nelson Gallery, (Kansas City, MO: Nelson Gallery and Atkins Museum, 1967), 57, no. 162.

California Palace of the Legion of Honor. Cathay Invoked: Chinoiserie, a Celestial Empire in the West, exh. cat. (San Francisco: California Palace of the Legion of Honor, 1966), unpaginated.

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