Basin with crowded figures, St Louis 1904

鉢(1904年セントルイス万博出品)

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Basin with crowded figures, St Louis 1904
Image: Plate from the 1904 St Louis catalogue (Getty Research Institute / Internet Archive) · Public domain · Source

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Listed in the 1904 St Louis catalogue simply as “Basin, Pottery. By Yabu (Meizan), Osaka.” The photograph shows a deep basin with a lobed, diapered rim, its walls crowded with hundreds of tiny figures, on a carved wooden stand. Present whereabouts unrecorded.

Possible identification (unconfirmed): Henry Walters bought Meizan’s six-lobed Bowl with a Multitude of Women (Walters 49.2280) at this exposition. The silhouette is similar, but the plate alone cannot confirm they are the same object.

Exhibition history

Louisiana Purchase Exposition, St Louis, 1904