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Footed Platter with Scene of Musician
Footed Platter with Scene of Musician

Footed Platter with Scene of Musician

CulturePersian
Date10th century C.E.
MediumEarthenware with slip and lead glaze
DimensionsOverall: 2 1/4 × 13 1/4 inches (5.72 × 33.66 cm)
Credit LinePurchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust
Object number53-10
On View
Not on view
Exhibition History

Persian Art: Before and After the Mongol Conquest, The University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, April 9-May 17, 1959, no. 70 as Footed Plate.

Provenance

With Paul Mallon (1884-1975), New York and Paris, by July 1949-1953 [1];

Purchased from Paul Mallon by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1953.

NOTES:

[1] This object was on loan from Mallon to the Nelson-Atkins from July 1949 until its purchase in 1953.


Published References

“Exhibition of the Art of Persia,” in The William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts Gallery News 22, no. 9 (June–September, 1955), (repro.).

Oleb Grabar, Persian Art: Before and After the Mongol Conquest, exh. cat. (Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Museum of Art, 1959), 34, 61, fig. 70, (repro.).

Ross E. Taggart, ed., Handbook of the Collections in the William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 4th ed. (Kansas City, MO: William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 1959), 244, (repro.).

Tsugio Mikami, Islamic Pottery (Tokyo: Chuo-Koron Bijutsu Shuppan, 1962), 24, pl. 162, (repro.).

Ross E. Taggart and George L. McKenna, eds., Handbook of the Collections in The William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, Kansas City, Missouri, vol. 2, Art of the Orient, 5th ed. (Kansas City, MO: William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 1973), 156, (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), 398, (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), 24, fig. 2, (repro.).

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