Provenance Information

Sold by E. & J. Frankel (New York) to Nancy and Ed Rosenthal (Cincinnati) in October 2000; donated by Nancy and Ed Rosenthal to the Dayton Art Institute in March 2022.

Exhibition Information

“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

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. 9.

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 2000 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 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.