Arita kilns
Large Dish Decorated with Shaped Panels
1867-1889
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Arita kilns
Large Dish Decorated with Shaped Panels
1867-1889
Physical Qualities
Porcelain with overglaze enamel decoration, 3 3/4 x 25 5/16 in. (9.5 x 64.3 cm.)
Credit Line
Gift of Minna Lürman
Object Number
1923.4.2
The large top panel contains seven sages enjoying a poetry outing in a bamboo grove, the lower panel contains a landscape with a river and mountain, and two smaller military fan-shaped panels each containing two birds on a flowering branch. Dragons cavort among large blossoms on the densely-patterned ground. Around the exterior side, ten cranes fly above waves.
The Baltimore Museum of Art, by gift; Minna Lürman, Baltimore
Inscribed: On bottom, "Hichozan / Kajitado zo"
