Dish with Gingko Leaves
A quintessential example of Utsutsugawa ware, this dish was wheel-thrown, pressed over a mold to form the foliate rim, and then decorated. The brushed white slip follows the turn of the potter’s wheel. Against the textured white ground, two large ginkgo leaves—an auspicious motif associated with longevity—appear with overlapping and entwined stems on the interior of the dish, in iron-brown and copper-green pigments.
Artwork Details
- 刷毛地色絵抱銀杏文輪花皿
- Title: Dish with Gingko Leaves
- Period: Edo period (1615–1868)
- Date: late 17th–early 18th century
- Culture: Japan
- Medium: Stoneware with brushed white slip and copper green and iron brown under transparent glaze (Utsutsugawa ware)
- Dimensions: H. 1 3/4 in. (4.4 cm); Diam. 7 1/4 in. (18.4 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: 1975.268.589
- Curatorial Department: Asian Art
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