Large Dish with Landscape Design

Original Language Title染付山水図大皿

Manufacturer Chokichidani Kiln

Datelate 17th century

MediumGlazed porcelain with underglaze cobalt blue decoration (Hizen ware)

DimensionsOverall: 3 1/2 × 17 3/8 inches (8.89 × 44.13 cm)

Credit LineBequest of Mrs. George H. Bunting Jr.

Object number81-27/13

MarkingsFuku mark

On View

Not on view

Collections

East Asian Art

Terms

DescriptionThinly potted with typical Ko-kutani foot and depression and with a broad, thin foliated and cusped rim that warped in firing; decorated with landscape in underglaze blue which appears to meld with, rather than lie under, the matte, white opaque glaze; glaze randomly but extensively pocked from frit eruptions; slightly underfired; reverse decorated with two attenuated landscapes abstracted after the Chinese transitional manner.Exhibition History

Exhibition History

200 Years of Japanese Porcelain, City Art Museum of St. Louis, Saint Louis, MO, Oct. 9- Nov. 15, 1970; Nelson-Atkins Gallery, Kansas City, MO, Dec. 3-1970- Jan. 3, 1971.

Gallery Label

This plate was made for domestic use in the earliest period (1620–1659) of porcelain production in Japan, before objects were made for the export trade. The bold, brush-painted landscape in cobalt oxide, flat, matte-finished glaze and the sturdy form of the dish are typical of the Chokichidani kiln production.

Provenance

With S. Yabumoto, Ltd., Tokyo, by 1964;

Purchased from S. Yabumoto, Ltd., by N. V. Hammer, Inc., New York, no. C496, by November 17, 1964 [1];

Purchased from N. V. Hammer, Inc. by Karen Dean Bunting (1912-1981), Shawnee Mission, KS, November 24, 1964-1981 [2];

Her bequest to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1981.

NOTES:

[1] According to a letter from N. V. Hammer, Inc. to Karen Bunting, November 17, 1964, Nelson-Atkins curatorial files, Hammer acquired this dish from Yabumoto “when I was last in Japan.”

[2] The N. V. Hammer, Inc. invoice is in the Nelson-Atkins curatorial files.

Published References

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), 30.

Richard S. Cleveland, 200 Years of Japanese Porcelain, exh. cat. (Saint Louis: City Art Museum of St. Louis, 1970) no. 50, 64-65, text 159.

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