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Square Dish with Design of Plovers over Waves
Ogata Kenzan, Ogata Kōrinc. 1700
The Cleveland Museum of Art
Cleveland, United States
The Ogata brothers Kōrin and Kenzan often collaborated on ceramics. This dish is one of a set used for serving tea cakes. Kenzan shaped the dish, after which Kōrin drew the iron oxide design of plovers, a type of shorebird, flying over waves. Kenzan then covered the object with a clear glaze and fired it. Kōrin placed his signature next to his design, while Kenzan signed the back.
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- Title: Square Dish with Design of Plovers over Waves
- Creator: Ogata Kōrin (Japanese, 1658-1716), Ogata Kenzan (Japanese, 1663-1743)
- Date Created: c. 1700
- Physical Dimensions: Overall: 22 x 22 x 2.7 cm (8 11/16 x 8 11/16 x 1 1/16 in.)
- Provenance: Okochi Collection, Tokyo, Japan; Okochi Masatoshi, (Setsu Gatodo Co., Ltd., Tokyo, Japan, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art), The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
- Type: Ceramic
- Rights: CC0
- External Link: https://clevelandart.org/art/1966.365
- Medium: Glazed stoneware with iron oxide underglaze slip
- Original Title: 銹絵波に千鳥文角皿
- Inscriptions: design painted by Korin and signed "Jakumei Korin Gaku"; inner and outer faces of four walls probably painted by an assistant at the kiln, underside of dish signed, "Kenzan."
- Department: Japanese Art
- Culture: Japan, Edo period (1615-1868)
- Credit Line: Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
- Collection: Japanese Art
- Accession Number: 1966.365
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