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CultureChinese
Date15th century
MediumPorcelain with underglaze blue decoration
DimensionsOverall: 12 1/4 inches (31.12 cm)
Credit LinePurchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust
Object number64-4/1
On View
On view
Gallery Location
  • 201
Collections
Exhibition History

Blue and White: Chinese Porcelain and Its Impact on the Western World, David and Alfred Smart Gallery, University of Chicago, October 3-December 1, 1985.

Provenance

Mrs. and Mrs. James P. Speer II;

Purchased from Mrs. and Mrs. James P. Speer II by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1964.

Published References

Archives of Asian Art, vol. XVI (New York: Asia Society, 1962), 114, fig. 37.

Ibid., Country Life (May 30, 1963), 1248 (repro.).

The well-known Collection of Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art, Part I, Sotheby and Company (London: March 26, 1963), no. 48 (repro.).

Sotheby & Co., sale catalog. 14 (March 1972), no. 126, no. 127 (repro.).

John Carswell et al., Blue and White: Chinese Porcelain and Its Impact on the Western World (Chicago: University of Chicago, David and Alfred Smart Gallery, 1985), 77 (repro.).

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 Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1993), 299 (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), 224, no. 224 (repro.).

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