The Clear Pool (Pai-t'an-t'u)
So-Gen-Min-Shin, Tokyo National Museum, Tokyo, 1931.
Inabata Katsutaro (1862-1949), Kyoto, Japan, by 1949 [1];
With Michelangelo Piacentini (d. 2005), Tokyo, by April 19, 1950-1953, as The Clear Stream [2];
Purchased from Piacentini by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1953.
NOTES:
[1] Inabata Katsutaro was a Japanese businessman who founded a dyeing company in Kyoto. He is known for introducing motion pictures to Japan when he brought a cinematograph back with him following a trip to France.
[2] Piacentini was an Italian art historian based in Tokyo after the Second World War. He studied Italian Renaissance art, while collecting and dealing in Asian objects. This painting is listed on an invoice he sent to the Nelson-Atkins dated April 19, 1950, Nelson-Atkins curatorial files.
So-Gen-Min-Shin, (Tokyo: Tokyo National Museum, 1931), pl.108.
Harada Bizan, Nihon genzai shina meiga mokuroku [Chinese paintings now in Japan], (Tokyo, 1938), 153.
Kinjiro Harada, Shina meiga Hokan [The pageant of Chinese painting], (Tokyo: 1936), pl. 547.
Max Loehr, The Great Painters of China (Oxford: Phaidon press, 1980), 273, fig. 144.
Wai-Kam Ho, et al., Eight Dynasties of Chinese Painting: The Collections of the Nelson Gallery-Atkins Museum, Kansas City, and The Cleveland Museum of Art. (The Cleveland Museum of Art in cooperation with Indiana University Press, c1980), 193-194, no. 159.
Bulletin of the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities, no. 54, (Stockholm: Mette Siggstedt, 1982), ‘Zhou Chen’, pl. 1.
