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Originally created to imitate Chinese ceramics to compete for the Dutch market, Kameyama ware soon took on a special quality of its own, blending auspicious shapes like the peach and the gourd with intricate painted designs.
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Title: Bowl
Period: Edo period (1615–1868)
Date: 1820
Culture: Japan
Medium: White porcelain decorated with blue under the glaze (Kameyama ware)
Dimensions: H. 3 1/4 in. (8.3 cm); W. 6 1/4 in. (15.9 cm); L. 7 1/2 in. (19.1 cm)
Classification: Ceramics
Credit Line: Gift of Charles Stewart Smith, 1893
Accession Number: 93.3.453
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