Shallow Dish
CultureJapanese
Dateca. 1700
MediumPorcelain (Hizen ware; Kakiemon type)
DimensionsOverall: 1 1/4 × 8 1/8 inches (3.18 × 20.64 cm)
Credit LineBequest of Mrs. George H. Bunting Jr.
Object number81-27/9
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DescriptionShallow dish decorated with rocks, flowers, and birds. Central roundel of double underglaze blue lines, decorated with green, blue, and iron-red cock's comb-shaped rocks with plum branch in blue, blossoms in red and long-tailed bird; two major decorative friezes in cavetto of rocks, birds, flowers, and earthen banks in overglaze enamels; reverse decorated in running scrolls terminating in six, evenly spaced flower and tendril scrolls.ProvenanceWith K. Imai, Kyoto, Japan, by April 20, 1968;
Purchased from K. Imai by Karen Dean Bunting (1912-1981), Shawnee Mission, KS, April 20, 1968-1981 [1];
Her bequest to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1981.
NOTES:
[1] K. Imai’s receipt is in the Nelson-Atkins curatorial files.
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