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Dish with design of flowers, underglaze blue

UnknownEdo period, latter half of 17th century

Suntory Museum of Art

Suntory Museum of Art
Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan

This dish, unusually for Nabeshima ware, has a flat interior and a strongly recurved rim. Five floral motifs with ray-like petals are scattered over the interior. This abstract design is fresh and crisp, but what is being alluded to is unclear: perhaps flowers, auspicious noshi strips bundled together to resemble flowers, or cut-paper flowers used in ceremonies. The pale lapis lazuli glaze (a translucent blue made by mixing the gosu of underglaze blue into the transparent glaze applied before the overglaze) on the interior has run slightly over the edge of the underside. The designs are in white resist and underglaze blue. The rim of the underside is entirely covered in interlocking thunderbolt arabesques with peony flowers at three equal intervals. A comb pattern circles the foot.

Details

  • Title: Dish with design of flowers, underglaze blue
  • Creator: Unknown
  • Date Created: Edo period, latter half of 17th century
  • Location Created: Japan
  • Physical Dimensions: w200 x h45 cm
  • Object Width (English): 20 cm (Diameter of mouth) / 9.1 cm (Diameter of foot)
  • Object Title (Japanese): 薄瑠璃染付花文皿
  • Object Height (English): 4.5 cm
  • Object Date (English): Edo period, latter half of 17th century
  • Category (Japanese): 陶磁器
  • Artist Name (Japanese): 不明
  • Type: Ceramics
  • Rights: Suntory Museum of Art, Suntory Museum of Art

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