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Bottle

CultureChinese
Date14th century
MediumPorcelain with underglaze blue decoration
DimensionsOverall: 11 5/8 × 6 1/16 inches (29.53 × 15.4 cm)
Credit LinePurchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust
Object number33-7/9
On View
On view
Gallery Location
  • 201
Collections
DescriptionWhite porcelain vase with a pear-shaped body, a narrow neck, and flaring mouth, decorated in an underglaze blue enamel with peony scrolls against a wave pattern. Band of lappets around the inside of the lip and a diaper band around the foot. Lip has been repaired.Exhibition History

Ming Blue and White, Philadelphia Museum of Art, October 29-December 3, 1949; Art Institute of Chicago, December 1949-February 1950.

Ceramic Echoes Exhibition, October 14-November 27, 1983.

Provenance

Yamanaka & Co.;

Purchased from Yamanaka & Co. by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1933.

Published References

Philadelphia Museum Bulletin of Art, vol. XLIV, no. 223 (Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1949), 21, cat. no. 3 (repro.).

Apollo, special issue for the Asian art collection in the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Vol. XCVII, no. 133 (March 1973), 45, no. 9 (repro.).

Margaret Medley, The Chinese Potter, A Practical History of Chinese Ceramics (New York: Scribner, 1976), 188, fig. 140 (repro.).

Tsugio Mikami, Sekai Toji Zenshu, vol. 13 (Tokyo: Shogakukan, 1981), 212, pl. 209 (repro.).

Ellen R. Goheen, The Collections of the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art (New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1988), 176, cat. 96 (repro.).

Roger Ward and Patricia J. Fidler, eds., The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: A Handbook of the Collection (New York: Hudson Hills Press, in association with Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1993), 298 (repro.).

Deborah Emont Scott, ed., The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: A Handbook of the Collection, 7th ed. (Kansas City, MO: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 2008), 350, no. 208 (repro.).

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