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Dish with Sweet Osmanthus and Cloud
late 1600s-early 1700s
The Cleveland Museum of Art
Cleveland, United States
The dish is an example of the finest type of early Japanese porcelain, Nabeshima-type Hizen ware. It is decorated with sweet osmanthus, or fragrant olive tree, with iron-red flowers and green and yellow enamels on the leaves. A band of misty clouds in underglaze blue completes the composition. The osmanthus tree was imported from China to southern Japan.
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- Title: Dish with Sweet Osmanthus and Cloud
- Date Created: late 1600s-early 1700s
- Physical Dimensions: Diameter: 20 cm (7 7/8 in.)
- Provenance: (Sebastian Izzard, New York, NY, ?-2017, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art), The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH, 2017-present
- Type: Ceramic
- Rights: CC0
- External Link: https://clevelandart.org/art/2017.63
- Medium: Porcelain with underglaze blue and overglaze color enamel (Hizen ware, Nabeshima type)
- Original Title: 色絵木犀文皿
- Department: Japanese Art
- Culture: Japan, Edo period (1615-1868)
- Credit Line: Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
- Collection: Japanese Art
- Accession Number: 2017.63
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