Octagonal Bowl with Dragons and Auspicious Motifs

Eiraku Tokuzen Japanese

On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 229

The so-called gold-brocade style refers to a type of porcelain with detailed gold patterning made in China for the Japanese market during the sixteenth century. The technique was revived in Kyoto in the nineteenth century as part of the growing interest in Chinese culture. Tokuzen was the thirteenth-generation head of the local Eiraku family of potters, whose lineage can be traced back to the sixteenth century.

Octagonal Bowl with Dragons and Auspicious Motifs, Eiraku Tokuzen (Japanese, 1853–1909), Porcelain painted with red and gold over a transparent glaze (Kyoto ware, Eiraku type), Japan

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Octagonal Bowl with Dragons and Auspicious Motifs, Eiraku Tokuzen (Japanese, 1853–1909), Porcelain painted with red and gold over a transparent glaze (Kyoto ware, Eiraku type), Japan
Octagonal Bowl with Dragons and Auspicious Motifs, Eiraku Tokuzen (Japanese, 1853–1909), Porcelain painted with red and gold over a transparent glaze (Kyoto ware, Eiraku type), Japan

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