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Charger with Japanese Map DesignTenpo era (c. 1830-1843)

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Large blue-and-white ceramic plate painted with a cartographic map showing labeled landmasses amid stylized ocean waves, a circular trigram diagram upper left, and a ship in a cartouche at bottom center
Blue-and-white porcelain dish viewed from below, with a broad rim decorated in fine radiating brushstroke pattern; six Chinese characters arranged in two columns at center of the base.

Unknown, Charger with Japanese Map Design, Tenpo era (c. 1830-1843), Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Gift of Allan and Maxine Kurtzman, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA

Artist or Maker
Unknown
Title
Charger with Japanese Map Design
Place Made
Japan
Date Made
Tenpo era (c. 1830-1843)
Period
Edo period (1603-1868)
Medium
Hizen ware, Arita type; porcelain with blue underglaze
Dimensions
3 x 19 in. (7.62 x 48.26 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of Allan and Maxine Kurtzman
Accession Number
M.2000.52
Classification
Ceramics
Collecting Area
Japanese Art
Selected Bibliography
  • Singer, Robert T., Carpenter, John T., Goodall-Cristante, Hollis, and Takeda, Sharon Sadako. Edo: Art in Japan 1615-1868. Washington: National Gallery of Art, 1998.