Dish
ca. 1700 (made)
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Pickle dish, one of a pair (with FE.88A-1970). Of deep saucer shape with thinly-potted, rounded, rising sides, on which four trefoils have been cut away from the rim; neat foot. Painted inside in light blue, green, red and yellow enamels with black outlining is a coiled chi dragon in the centre, with three asymmetrical hooked fret motives signifying thunder emanating from the rim; the outside plain.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Porcelain painted in overglaze enamels |
| Brief description | Pickle dish, porcelain painted in overglaze enamels; Japan, Arita kilns (Kakiemon type), Edo period, ca. 1700 |
| Physical description | Pickle dish, one of a pair (with FE.88A-1970). Of deep saucer shape with thinly-potted, rounded, rising sides, on which four trefoils have been cut away from the rim; neat foot. Painted inside in light blue, green, red and yellow enamels with black outlining is a coiled chi dragon in the centre, with three asymmetrical hooked fret motives signifying thunder emanating from the rim; the outside plain. |
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| Gallery label | Pair of pickle trays
Porcelain decorated in overglaze enamels
Arita ware, Kakiemon style
JAPANESE; circa 1700
Miss E. Humphreys-Owen Gift
FE.88&A-1970(as at 2005) |
| Credit line | Given by Miss E. Humphreys-Owen |
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| Collection | |
| Accession number | FE.88-1970 |
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| Record created | June 25, 2009 |
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