Shallow Round Footed Dish
CultureJapanese
Date18th century
MediumPorcelain with underglaze blue and overglaze enamel (Hizen ware; Nabeshima type)
DimensionsOverall: 2 × 7 15/16 inches (5.08 × 20.16 cm)
Credit LineBequest of Mrs. George H. Bunting Jr.
Object number81-27/2
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DescriptionInterior decorated in underglaze blue with rafts floating askew in a stylized water current and in overglaze iron-red, yellow, and green enamels with peach flowers about the bundles; exterior decorated in underglaze blue with triple floral and tendril pattern and with a comb design on the foot; Nabeshima ware.ProvenanceWith Mrs. George H. Bunting Jr., Shawnee Mission, KS, by 1981;
Bequeathed by Mrs. George H. Bunting Jr. to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1981.Roger
Ward, ed., A Bountiful Decade: Selected
Acquisitions, 1977-1987, exh. cat. (Kansas City, MO: the Nelson-Atkins
Museum of Art, 1987), 68, no.25, (repro.).
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