Sweetmeat Dish

CulturePersian

Datelate 12th century

MediumLusterware (earthenware with iridescent glaze and underglaze painted decoration) Ceramic

DimensionsOverall: 3 1/4 × 12 7/8 inches (8.26 × 32.7 cm)

Credit LinePurchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust

Object number32-110

On View

Not on view

Collections

South and Southeast Asian Art

Terms

Exhibition History

Exhibition of Persian Art, The Iranian Institute, New York, April 15-May 15, 1940, gallery 2, case 11, no. M.

Islamic Art, Cleveland Museum of Art, November 3, 1944–February 4, 1945, no cat.

Provenance

With Hagop Kevorkian, New York, stock no. 2226H, by July 1, 1932 [1];

Purchased from Kevorkian, through Langdon Warner, by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1932.

NOTES:

[1] Nelson-Atkins Archives, RG01/01 Director's Office Records: Paul Gardner, 1932-53, Box 1, Folder 23, Kevorkian 1932-50.

Published References

Phyllis Ackerman, Guide to the Exhibition of Persian Art, exh. cat. (New York: The Iranian Institute, 1940), 49.

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), 172, (repro.).

Ross E. Taggart, ed., Handbook of the Collections in the William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 4th ed. (Kansas City, MO: William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 1959), 245, (repro.).

Ross E. Taggart and George L. McKenna, eds., Handbook of the Collections in The William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, Kansas City, Missouri, vol. 2, Art of the Orient, 5th ed. (Kansas City, MO: William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 1973), 158, (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), 399, (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), 26, fig. 8, (repro.).

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