Table decoration (okimono)
CultureJapanese
Date18th century
MediumGray glazed porcelain (Bizen ware)
DimensionsOverall: 8 × 10 1/4 inches (20.32 × 26.04 cm)
Credit LinePurchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust
Object number34-234/3
On View
Not on viewCollections
ProvenanceWith Yamanaka & Co., New York, by July 13, 1934 [1];
Purchased from Yamanaka & Co. by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1934.
NOTES:
[1] This object is no. 96 on a list of offered objects included in a letter from K. Tanaka, Yamanaka & Co. to J. C. Nichols, Nelson-Atkins trustee, July 13, 1934, Harvard University, Langdon Warner Personal Archive, box 13, folder 4, copy in Nelson-Atkins curatorial files.
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