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Footed Dish

Original Language Title鍋島焼色絵水葵文皿
CultureJapanese
Datelate 19th century
MediumPorcelain with underglaze blue and overglaze enamel (Hizen ware, Nabeshima type)
DimensionsOverall: 1 5/8 × 5 7/8 inches (4.14 × 14.92 cm)
Credit LineBequest of Mrs. George H. Bunting Jr.
Object number81-27/5
On View
Not on view
Collections
DescriptionDecorated in underglaze blue and schematic wave pattern and stalk of plantain lily and in iron-red, green, and yellow overglaze enamels for blossoms and leaves, which appear against a large, white reserve that may represent a shore or dune; the exterior decorated in underglaze blue with three cash ribbon designs and the foot with comb designs.Exhibition History

200 Years of Japanese Porcelain, City Art Museum of St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, Oct. 9- Nov. 15, 1970; The Nelson-Atkins Gallery, Kansas City, MO, Dec. 3, 1970- Jan. 3, 1971.

Richard S. Cleveland, 200 Years of Japanese Porcelain. (St. Louis: City Art Museum of St. Louis, 1970), no. 124.
Provenance

Fujuwara Riseido, Kita-ku, Osaka, Japan,

 

Purchased from Fujuwara Riseido by Mayuyama & Co., Tokyo, by September 22, 1965 [1];

 

Purchased from Mayuyama & Co. by Karen Dean Bunting (1912-1981), Shawnee Mission, KS, September 22, 1965-1981 [2];

 

Her bequest to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1981.

 

NOTES:

 

[1] According to the special customs invoice submitted by Mayuyama & Co. upon shipping the dish from Japan to the United States, Nelson-Atkins curatorial files.

 

[2] The Mayuyama & Co. invoice is in the Nelson-Atkins curatorial files;

Published References

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), 356 (repro.).

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), 395, fig. 54 (repro.).

Richard S. Cleveland, 200 Years of Japanese Porcelain, exh. cat. (St. Louis: City Art Museum of St. Louis, 1970), no. 124, 131, text p.185 (repro.).

Mayuyama Ryūsendō, Mayuyama Seventy Years, vol.1, (Tokyo: Mayuyama, 1976), 455, pl. 1388.
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