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On display at V&A South Kensington
Ceramics, Room 137, The Curtain Foundation Gallery

Dish

17th century-18th century (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Dish, one of a pair with FE.5-1984. Mould-made from a pale grey firing clay, ogival shape with deep rounded sides and almost flat interiors. The footring is attached and smoothed into place. This process would have been done on a wheel or rotating platform. The join on the inside of the footring is securely finished, but there is narrow drying cracks running around the outside. The rim has also been smoothed, but not to the extent of completely losing the square cross-section resulting form knife-trimming. The translucent glaze, which is a pale greenish grey colour and has a medium crackle, covers all of the interior and most of the exterior, stopping in principle at the beginning of the footring.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Stoneware, moulded and glazed
Brief description
Dish, one of a pair, stoneware with a pale greenish grey glaze; Japan, Seto/Mino, 17th-18th century
Physical description
Dish, one of a pair with FE.5-1984. Mould-made from a pale grey firing clay, ogival shape with deep rounded sides and almost flat interiors. The footring is attached and smoothed into place. This process would have been done on a wheel or rotating platform. The join on the inside of the footring is securely finished, but there is narrow drying cracks running around the outside. The rim has also been smoothed, but not to the extent of completely losing the square cross-section resulting form knife-trimming. The translucent glaze, which is a pale greenish grey colour and has a medium crackle, covers all of the interior and most of the exterior, stopping in principle at the beginning of the footring.
Dimensions
  • Length: 15cm
  • Width: 9.6cm
  • Height: 3.9cm
  • Footring diameter: 5.4cm
Styles
Credit line
Given by T. Esaki
Collection
Accession number
FE.5A-1984

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Record createdMarch 26, 2010
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