Hirado Ware Dish Decorated with Fish Jumping the Dragon Falls
17th-18th century
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Hirado Ware Dish Decorated with Fish Jumping the Dragon Falls
17th-18th century
Physical Qualities
Porcelain with underglaze cobalt decoration, 2.6 × 12.8 × 11.3 cm. (1 × 5 1/16 × 4 7/16 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Stephen W. Fisher, Baltimore
Object Number
2019.209
The dish is in the shape of the magic sack filled with treasure carried by Daikoku, one of Japan's Seven Lucky Gods.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 2019; Stephen W. Fisher, Baltimore by purchase, 2000; from Marion Sweeney, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
