Flower vase

Photo: Paul Macapia

Flower vase

late 16th - early 17th century

Mino ware, Shino style; stoneware with glaze
7 x 5 in. (17.78 x 12.7cm)
Eugene Fuller Memorial Collection
51.208
Photo: Paul Macapia
location
Not currently on view

Resources

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

San Francisco, M. H. de Young Memorial Museum, Treasures of Japan, 1960.

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

New York, New York, Asia House, Tea Taste in Japanese Art, 1963.

Portland, Oregon, Portland Art Museum, Gift to a City: Masterworks from the Eugene Fuller Memorial Collection in the Seattle Art Museum, Nov. 3 - 28, 1965. Cat. no. 125.

San Francisco, California, Society of Asian Art at the M. H. de Young Memorial Museum, Japanese Tea Ceremony Ceramics (H. Trubner lecture), 1969.

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

Seattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, Volunteer Park, From Tea Master to Townsman, Oct. 1, 1987.

Seattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, Tea House Gallery Installation, Nov. 26, 2004 - Jan. 30, 2006.

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.

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. 121

Kansas City & City Art Mus., St. Louis, "Art of japan in the Edo Period," cat. (1958), p. 17, no. 38

"Masterpieces of Asian Art in American Collections" (1960), no. 19a

Lee, Sherman. "Japanese Decorative Style," (1961), p. 54 and illus.; no. 56, p. 141

"Connoisseur," (August 1962), fig. 5, p. 237

Lee, Sherman. "Contrasts in Chinese and Japanese Art," in The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, Vol. 21, No. 1 (Autumn, 1962), pp. 3- 12, fig. 15

Feddersen, M., "Japanese Decorative Art," (1962), fig. 16, p. 53; p. 52

Lee, Sherman. "Tea Taste in Japanese Art," cat., Asia House (1963), p. 31; p. 99, no. 28

Lee, Sherman. "History of Far Eastern Art," (1964), p. 391, color pl. 39, p. 397

"Gift to a City" exhibition catalogue. Portland, OR: Portland Art Museum, 1965, cat. no. 125

Mayuyama, Junkichi. "Japanese Art in the West," (1966), no. 337

Kawai, Masatomo, Yasuhiro Nishioka, Yukiko Sirahara, editors, "Luminous Jewels: Masterpieces of Asian Art From the Seattle Art Museum", 2009, The Yomiuri Shimbun, catalogue number 15

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