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 August 1953 [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.
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.
