Covered Bowl

Original Language Title色絵芒文蓋付小鉢

Attributed to Ogata Kenzan (Japanese, 1663 - 1743)

Date1700s

MediumGlazed stoneware (Kyoto ware)

DimensionsOverall: 3 5/8 × 5 1/2 inches (9.22 × 13.97 cm)

Credit LineGift of Mrs. George H. Bunting Jr.

Object number71-33/1 A,B

On View

Not on view

Collections

East Asian Art

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Gallery Label

What do the changes of the seasons mean to you? In Japan, they reflect not only the passage of time, but also the fleeting nature of life and one’s existence in the world. Artists distilled features of the natural world into specific scenes or recurring symbolic motifs to encourage reflection on one’s life.

Provenance

With Mathias Komor, New York [1];

Purchased from Komor by Karen Dean Bunting (Mrs. George H. Bunting, Jr., 1912-1981), Shawnee Mission, KS, by 1971;

Her gift to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1971.

NOTES:

[1] List of Gifts to the Nelson Gallery-Atkins Museum by Mrs. George H. Bunting, Jr., Nelson-Atkins Registration files.

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: William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 1973), 113, (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), 351, (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), 397, no. 62 9 (repro.)

"Art of Asia Recently Acquired by American Museums 1971." Archives of Asian Art 26, Fig. 36 (1972-73): 89. (repro.)

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