Bowl with Flowering Cherry Branch Design
The brown iron-oxide glaze in combination with the underglaze cobalt blue often, though not exclusively, appears on porcelain meant for the internal Japanese market.
Artwork Details
- Title: Bowl with Flowering Cherry Branch Design
- Period: Edo period (1615–1868)
- Date: 1730
- Culture: Japan
- Medium: Porcelain with iron-oxide glaze and underglaze cobalt-blue decoration (Hizen ware, Kutani type)
- Dimensions: H. 2 in. (5.1 cm); W. 5 3/4 in. (14.6 cm)
- Classification: Ceramics
- Credit Line: Gift of Charles Stewart Smith, 1893
- Object Number: 93.3.337
- Curatorial Department: Asian Art
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