Dish with Rafts, Bamboo Hats, and Tokugawa Family Crest

ca. 1680–1720

Not on view

The Tokugawa family crest, three of which appear on this striking dish, is rarely seen on porcelain from Arita, and never on Nabeshima ware. Besides the latter, Hirado ware was the only porcelain required to be presented regularly as gifts to the shogun. Unusually for Hirado ware, the decoration covers the entire surface of the dish’s interior.

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染付筏かぶり笠葵紋文皿
Title: Dish with Rafts, Bamboo Hats, and Tokugawa Family Crest
Period: Edo period (1615–1868)
Date: ca. 1680–1720
Culture: Japan
Medium: Porcelain with underglaze blue (Hirado ware)
Dimensions: H. 1 3/8 in. (3.5 cm); Diam. 8 in. (20.3 cm); Diam. of foot 5 1/8 in. (13 cm)
Classification: Ceramics
Credit Line: Gift of Charles Stewart Smith, 1893
Object Number: 93.3.461
Curatorial Department: Asian Art

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