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Tureen with rocks, flowers, and birds

18th century
Not on view
A Chinese-style garden wraps around the curved surfaces of this large bowl and its round cover. With its pair of birds on rocks with peonies on one side and chrysanthemums on the other, it is a type that is known in several examples found in Europe, where it was highly prized in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. Its white body and palette of bright clear greens and blues with red and yellow were inspired by Chinese famille verte of the Kangxi era (1662–1722) and characterize the enameled ware traditionally known as Kakiemon porcelain.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Tureen with rocks, flowers, and birds
  • Period: Edo period (1615–1868)
  • Date: 18th century
  • Culture: Japan
  • Medium: Porcelain painted with cobalt blue under and colored enamels over transparent glaze (Arita ware; Kakiemon type)
  • Dimensions: H. 13 3/4 in. (34.9 cm); Diam. 12 3/8 in. (31.4 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: 1975.268.526a, b
  • Curatorial Department: Asian Art

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