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Platecirca 1650-1660

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Ceramic dish seen from above, mustard-yellow ground densely painted with teal chrysanthemum blooms, broad ribbed leaves, and scattered small white blossoms on reddish-brown stems
Ceramic dish with a vivid yellow ground densely dotted with small yellow blossoms, painted with large dark green leaves and sunflower-like blooms in green and yellow enamel, with branching brown stems across the surface.
Porcelain dish viewed from below, covered in bright turquoise-green glaze with dense dark scroll patterns across the exterior; unglazed white footrim edged in gold encircles a central square seal mark in Chinese characters.

Anonymous, Plate, circa 1650-1660, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Purchased with funds provided by the Art Museum Council, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA

Artist or Maker
Anonymous
Title
Plate
Place Made
Japan
Date Made
circa 1650-1660
Period
Edo period (1603 - 1868)
Medium
Arita ware, Kokutani style; porcelain with over-glaze enamels
Dimensions
Diameter: 13 3/4 in. (34.93 cm)
Credit Line
Purchased with funds provided by the Art Museum Council
Accession Number
AC1992.110.1
Classification
Ceramics
Collecting Area
Japanese Art
Selected Bibliography
  • Singer, Robert; Hollis Goodall. Hirado Porcelain of Japan: From the Kurtzman Family Collection.
    Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1997.
  • Report on the Arita Ware Rediscovery Project. Saga-ken: Saga-ken Bunka Supōtsu Kōryū-Kyoku Bunkaka : Saga Kenritsu Kyūshū Tōji Bunkakan, 2020

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