Deep Dish with Chrysanthemum in a Stream, mid 17th century
Unknown Japaneseexpand_more
Imari ware; Porcelain with celadon glaze and underglaze cobalt blueexpand_more
Mary Griggs Burke Collection, Gift of the Mary and Jackson Burke Foundationexpand_more 2015.79.298
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The center of this deep, fluted dish features a large white chrysanthemum partially submerged in a flowing stream with a pair of geese flying nearby. This simple design—which was also a popular design for textiles of the time—is made using a variant of the porcelain technique sometsuke (designs painted in blue on white pottery) known as seiji (celadon) sometsuke. The artist first glazed the entire dish in blue-green celadon, scraped away the area that would become the stream and chrysanthemum to reveal the white beneath, painted the blue design with a brush, and then covered the entire dish with a final, clear glaze before firing.
Details
- Title
- Deep Dish with Chrysanthemum in a Stream
- Role
- Artist
- Accession Number
- 2015.79.298
- Catalogue Raisonne
- Murase, Art through a Lifetime, no. 617
- Curator Approved
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