Square serving dish

17th century

Japanese

Stoneware with underglaze decoration

1 7/8 x 7 3/4 in. (4.76 x 19.69 cm)

Eugene Fuller Memorial Collection

56.130

Photo: Paul Macapia

Now on view at the Asian Art Museum

Resources

Exhibition HistoryKansas City, Missouri, Nelson-Atkins Gallery of Art, Art of Japan In The Edo Period, 1958 (St. Louis, Missouri, City Art Museum, 1958).

Seattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, Japanese Art In The Seattle Art Museum, 1960.

Cleveland, Ohio, Cleveland Museum of Art, Japanese Decorative Style, 1961 (Chicago, Illinois, Art Institute of Chicago, 1961).

San Francisco, California, Society of Asian Art, M.H. de Young Memorial Museum, Japanese Tea Ceremony Ceramics, 1969.

Seattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, From Tea Master To Townsman, Oct. 1, 1987.

Seattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, A Thousand Cranes: Treasures Of Japanese Art, Feb. 5 - July 12, 1987.

New York, New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Turning Point: Oribe and the Arts of Sixteenth-Century Japan, Oct. 21, 2003 - Jan. 11, 2004.

Tokyo, 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.

Seattle, Washington, Seattle Asian Art Museum, Tabaimo: Utsutsushi Utsushi, Nov. 11, 2016 - Feb. 26, 2017.

Seattle, Washington, Seattle Asian Art Museum, Boundless: Stories of Asian Art, Feb. 8, 2020 - ongoing.

Published ReferencesFuller, Richard E. "Japanese Art in the Seattle Art Museum: An Historical Sketch." Seattle, WA: Seattle Art Museum, 1960 ("Presented in commemoration of the Hundredth Anniversary of Diplomatic Relations between Japan and the United States of America"), no. 124

"Selected Works." Seattle, WA: Seattle Art Museum, 1991, p. 191

Kawai, Masatomo, Yasuhiro Nishioka, Yukiko Sirahara, editors, "Luminous Jewels: Masterpieces of Asian Art From the Seattle Art Museum", 2009, The Yomiuri Shimbun, catalogue number 16.

Foong, Ping, Xiaojin Wu, and Darielle Mason. "An Asian Art Museum Transformed." Orientations vol. 51, no. 3 (May/June 2020): p. 61, reproduced fig. 22 (installation view).

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