Plate

CultureChinese

DateNorthern Song dynasty (960-1127)

MediumPorcelain with transparent glaze

DimensionsOverall: 10 1/2 inches (26.67 cm)

Credit LinePurchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust

Object number33-7/11

On View

On view

Gallery Location

Collections

East Asian Art

Terms

DescriptionCreamy white porcelain Pai Ting Yao plate decorated with bold peony flowers incised in center, conventional scroll motif in border on rim.Exhibition History

Exhibition History

Beauty of Beauty, The Nihon Keizai Shimbun, Mistukoshi Department Store, Tokyo, Japan. April 15 - 27, 1958.

Provenance

Yamanaka & Co.;

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

Published References

The William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, The William Rockhill Nelson Collection, 2nd ed. (Kansas City, MO: William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 1941), 118, fig. 20 (repro.).

The William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, The William Rockhill Nelson Collection, 3rd ed. (Kansas City, MO: William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 1949), 137 (repro.).

Mizuno Seiichi, ed., “Sung and Liao Dynasties,” in Sekai Toji Zenshu, vol. 10 (Japan: Zauho Press, 1955), 165, fig. 2 (repro.).

Kobayashi Taichiro, To-So no Hakuji, vol. 12 (Tōkyō: Heibonsha, Shōwa 34, 1959), pl. 4 (repro.).

Junkichi Mayuyama, ed., Chinese Ceramics in the West: a Compendium of Chinese Ceramic Masterpieces in European and American Collection (Kyoto-shi: Mayuyama Ryusendo, 1960), pl. 29 (repro.).

Hugo Munsterberg, Der Ferne Osten (Baden-Baden: Holle, 1968), 159 (repro.).

Jan Wirgin, “Sung Ceramics Designs” Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities, no. 42 (Stockholm: Museum, 1970), pl. 74 (repro.).

Ross E. Taggart, George L. McKenna, and Marc F. Wilson, eds., Handbook of the Collections in The William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, Kansas City, Missouri, vol. II, Art of the Orient. (Kansas City, MO: William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 1973), 85 (repro.).

Sherman E. Lee, “The Changing Taste for Chinese Ceramics” Apollo, special issue for the Asian art collection in the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Vol. XCVII, no. 133 (March 1973), 43, pl. 7 (repro.).

Hasebe Rakuji, “Toji,” in Chugoku bijutsu, vol. 5 (Tokyo: Kodansha, Showa 48, 1973), pl. 31 (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), 297 (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), 341, pl. 177 (repro.).

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), 18 (repro.).

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