Provenance Information

Acquired by J. J. Lally Co. (New York) in Hong Kong in 1991; sold by J. J. Lally Co. to Nancy and Ed Rosenthal (Cincinnati) in January 1998; donated by Nancy and Ed Rosenthal to the Dayton Art Institute in March 2022.

Exhibition Information

“Power and Virtue: The Horse in Chinese Art,” China Institute Gallery, New York, New York (September 11–December 13, 1997);

“Brush/Clay/Wood: The Nancy and Ed Rosenthal Collection of Chinese Art,” Taft Museum of Art, Cincinnati, Ohio (November 7, 2008–January 11, 2009);

“Fired Imagination: Ancient Chinese Ceramics from the Nancy and Ed Rosenthal Family Collection,” Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, Ohio (January 5–July 24, 2022).

Publication Information

Robert E. Harrist, Jr., with contributions by Virginia L. Bower, Power and Virtue: The Horse in Chinese Art (New York: China Institute Gallery, 1997), Cat. 4 (also reproduced on exhibiton postcards);

J. May Lee Barrett, “China Institute Gallery: A David in the Company of Goliaths,” Asian Art (March 1998), 6;

Virginia Bower, Sarah Handler, and Jon Burris, Brush/Clay/Wood: The Nancy and Ed Rosenthal Collection of Chinese Art (exh. cat., Taft Museum of Art, Cincinnati, 2008), Fig. 10.

Section of the AAMD Guidelines relied upon for the exception to 1970

Cumulative facts and circumstances

Explain why the object fits the exception set forth above

The work has provenance to 1991 and has been exhibited and published since then. It was also checked against the Art Loss Registry by the previous owner in June 2012. This is an important addition to the Dayton Art Institute and the greater Miami Valley region as it is stylistically significantly different from a work of the same subject but from a later period in the collection. Its acquisition helps further scholarly research on and public enjoyment of the dynamic and diverse achievements of ceramics in Chinese history and culture.