Matsuyama kiln and Yoshidaya kiln
Ko-Kutani Style Large Dish with Floral Decoration
1847-1854
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- Kiln: Matsuyama kiln
- Kiln: Yoshidaya kiln
Ko-Kutani Style Large Dish with Floral Decoration
1847-1854
Physical Qualities
Stoneware with green, brown, dark blue and yellow glazes, 2 1/4 H x 11 1/8 Diam. in. (5.7 x 28.3 cm.)
Credit Line
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Dow Berggren, Bethesda, Maryland
Object Number
2007.322
In the center, there is a large blue flower with green leaves, brown stems and rocks against a yellow ground filled with small open circles; eight petal-form panels surround the central circle, four brown-purple ones filled with diagonal crossed lines alternate with four holding half-flowers in brown-purple and yellow reserved against the biscuit, with all eight panels edged in blue; the rim washed with iron; and side decorated with grasses against a green ground.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 2007; Mr. and Mrs. Paul Dow Berggren, Bethesda, Maryland
Frances Klapthor, The Baltimore Museum of Art, "The Poetic Imagery of Japanese Art," February 22-August 8, 2010. (Levy Rotation)
Markings: Bottom: "Kutani"
