Square Dish

Original Language Title鼠志野葦文足付四方鉢

CultureJapanese

DateMomoyama period (1573-1615)

MediumGlazed and inlaid stoneware (Mino ware,Gray Shino type; glazed stoneware with slip)

DimensionsOverall: 6 1/4 × 6 1/4 inches (15.88 × 15.88 cm)

Credit LinePurchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust

Object number62-17

On View

Not on view

Collections

East Asian Art

Terms

Gallery Label

This type of dish, produced in matching sets of five or ten, were part of the table service for the chanoyu tea ceremony meal. The light-colored, decorative surface on the dishes was an innovation of Momoyama-era potters, a departure from the monochromatic medieval stoneware that had dominated ceramic production in Japan.

Provenance

With Hollis & Mayuyama Inc., by 1962;

Purchased from Hollis & Mayuyama, Inc. by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1962.

Published References

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: The William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 1973), 112.

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 The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1993), 348.

Deborah Emont Scott, ed., The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: A Handbook of the Collection, 7th ed. (Kansas City, MO: The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 2008), no.27, 387.

Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Ceramics: highlights from the collection of the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art (Kansas City, MO: The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art Museum, 2016), 28.

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