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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.
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.