Vase

CultureChinese

DateXuande period (1426-1435)

MediumPorcelain with underglaze blue decoration

DimensionsOverall: 21 3/4 × 11 1/2 inches (55.25 × 29.21 cm)

Credit LinePurchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust

Object number40-45/2

On View

On view

Gallery Location

Collections

East Asian Art

Terms

DescriptionBaluster vase of white with underglaze blue decoration of five-clawed dragon, clouds and four makara masks on the shoulder. Lotus design around the foot.Exhibition History

Exhibition History

Ming Blue and White, Philadelphia Museum of Art, October 29-December 3, 1949; Art Institute of Chicago, December 1949-February 1950.

Provenance

Dr. Otto Burchard;

Purchased from Dr. Otto Burchard by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1940.

Published References

A.J.B. Kiddell, “Note On A Blue And White Vase From The Tomb of The Emperor Hsuan Te,” Transactions of the Oriental Ceramic Society, vol. 21 (London: Society, 1945-1946), 17, pl. 4 (repro.).

A.J.B. Kiddell, “Further Note on A Pair of Blue and White Vases From The Tomb of Emperor Hsuan Te,” Transactions of the Oriental Ceramic Society, vol. 22 (London: Society, 1946-1947), 39, pl. 17, 18a, b (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), 158 (repro.).

“Ming Blue and a White at Philadelphia,” Oriental Art, vol. 3, no. 1 (1950), 22, fig. 1(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), 211 (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), 88 (repro.).

Apollo, special issue for the Asian art collection in the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Vol. XCVII, no. 133 (March 1973), 45, no. 11 (repro.).

Takashi Suzuki, Chugoku Bijutsu, vol. 5 (Tokyo: Kodansha, Showa 48, 1973), Pl. 71 (repro.).

Guo li gu gong bo wu yuan, Bian ji wei yuan hui, Hai wai yi zhen. Tao ci (Zhonghua min guo Taibei Shi Shilin qu: Guo li gu gong bo wu yuan, min guo 75, 1986), pl.135 (repro.).

Ellen R. Goheen, The Collections of the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art (New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1988),179, cat. 97 (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), 356, no. 225 (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), 22-23 (repro.).

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