Dish
ca. 1700-1725 (made)
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A square dish with spreading, slightly concave sides vertical at the rim, standing on a rather smaller square foot. Painted in a palette of leaf green, deep red, yellow, greyish aubergine and black enamels with touches of gilding. Inside on the bottom is a spray of flowering prunus, and round the four sides are panels of growing bamboo and prunus in alternation. Symmetrical leafy motives with ruyi-head centres appear on each outside face.
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Materials and techniques | Porcelain painted in overglaze enamels |
Brief description | Dish, porcelain decorated in overglaze enamels; Japan, Arita kilns, Edo period, ca. 1700-1725 |
Physical description | A square dish with spreading, slightly concave sides vertical at the rim, standing on a rather smaller square foot. Painted in a palette of leaf green, deep red, yellow, greyish aubergine and black enamels with touches of gilding. Inside on the bottom is a spray of flowering prunus, and round the four sides are panels of growing bamboo and prunus in alternation. Symmetrical leafy motives with ruyi-head centres appear on each outside face. |
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Gallery label | Dish
Porcelain decorated in overglaze enamels
Arita ware
JAPANESE; c.1700-1725
FE.67-1970
Given by Miss E. Humphreys-Owen(as at 2005) |
Credit line | Given by Miss E. Humphreys-Owen |
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Accession number | FE.67-1970 |
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Record created | June 25, 2009 |
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