Water Pot
CultureChinese
DateKangxi period (1662-1722)
MediumPorcelain
DimensionsOverall: 3 1/2 inches (8.89 cm)
Credit LinePurchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust
Object number33-7/2
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On viewGallery Location
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DescriptionImperial water pot coated with a brilliant oxblood red glaze on fine crackle ware with a white crackle rim. With a wooden stand.Exhibition HistoryArt Treasures Exhibition, Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, June 15-30, 1955.
With Yamanaka & Co., New York, no. NMX 499, by August 1932-1933 [1];
Purchased from Yamanaka & Co., through Langdon Warner (1881-1955), by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1933.
NOTES:
[1] List of offered objects included in a letter from K. Tanaka, Yamanaka & Co. to Langdon Warner, Nelson-Atkins advisor, August 23, 1932, Harvard University, Langdon Warner Personal Archive, box 13, folder 1, copy in Nelson-Atkins curatorial files.
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