Small Dish (Kozara) with Turnip

1620–40

On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 231

The turnip counts among the seven auspicious spring herbs (nanakusa). Eating seven-herb rice porridge on Jinjitsu (the Feast of the Seven Herbs) on January 7 is a long-standing tradition meant to invite good fortune and health for the coming year. The turnip’s round form is variously celebrated in the culinary arts. “Chrysanthemum turnips,” for example, are a symbol of longevity and grace created by delicately carving the root vegetable to resemble the flower’s petals.

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銹釉瑠璃蕪文小皿
Title: Small Dish (Kozara) with Turnip
Period: early Edo period (1615–1868)
Date: 1620–40
Culture: Japan
Medium: Porcelain with iron-brown glaze and light cobalt blue under transparent glaze and green over the glaze (Hizen ware, Arita type)
Dimensions: H. 1 1/4 in. (3.2 cm); Diam. 5 1/2 in. (14 cm)
Classification: Ceramics
Credit Line: The Harry G. C. Packard Collection of Asian Art, Gift of Harry G. C. Packard, and Purchase, Fletcher, Rogers, Harris Brisbane Dick, and Louis V. Bell Funds, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, and The Annenberg Fund Inc. Gift, 1975
Object Number: 1975.268.504
Curatorial Department: Asian Art

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