gray-blue blue bowl with decorative willow trees, swimming birds, and reeds encircling three flowers at center; painted band around top edge; wide floral band on outer walls

Bowl with waterfowl, willows, and reeds, late 13th - early 14th century

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The inside of this bowl features a pictorial design of water birds, probably geese, swimming alongside weeping willow trees and reeds. The inlaid designs seen on this bowl and on the covered box displayed nearby were created by carving the design into the clay and then infilling it with white and black slip before glazing the entire surface and firing.

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Title
Bowl with waterfowl, willows, and reeds
Role
Artist
Accession Number
2015.79.490
Catalogue Raisonne
Murase, Art through a Lifetime, no. 904
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gray-blue blue bowl with decorative willow trees, swimming birds, and reeds encircling three flowers at center; painted band around top edge; wide floral band on outer walls