Dish with design of birds and flowers

14th century

Carved black lacquer on wood

Diameter: 13 in. (33cm)

Floyd A. Naramore Memorial Purchase Fund and Margaret E. Fuller Purchase Fund

83.34

Provenance: Mr. Klaus F. Naumann, Tokyo, Japan, March 9, 1983; Purchased for the Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Washington with funds from Floyd A. Naramore Memorial Purchase Fund and Margaret E. Fuller Purchase Fund

Photo: Paul Macapia

Not currently on view

Resources

Exhibition HistoryTokyo, Japan, Suntory Museum of Art, Luminous Jewels: Masterpieces of Asian Art From the Seattle Art Museum, July 25 - Sept. 6, 2009 (Kobe, Japan, Kobe City Museum, Sept. 19 - Dec. 6, 2009; Kofu, Japan, Yamanashi Prefectural Museum of Art, Dec. 23, 2009 - Feb. 28, 2010; Atami, Japan, MOA Museum of Art, Mar. 13 - May 9, 2010; Fukuoka, Japan, Fukuoka Art Museum, May 23 - July 19, 2010).

Seattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, Luminous: The Art of Asia, Oct. 13, 2011 - Jan. 8, 2012.

Published ReferencesKnight, Michael, "East Asian Lacquers in the Collection of the Seattle Art Museum." Seattle, WA: Seattle Art Museum, 1992, no. 6, p. 11

Kawai, Masatomo, Yasuhiro Nishioka, Yukiko Sirahara, editors. "Luminous Jewels: Masterpieces of Asian Art From the Seattle Art Museum". The Yomiuri Shimbun, 2009, catalogue number 67

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