Dish with Sacred Jewels, Plum, Pine, and Bamboo
Nabeshima ware was a porcelain produced at official kilns in the Nabeshima clan’s Saga Domain during the Edo period. They were made exclusively to serve as tributes to the shogunal family, senior officials, and the three Tokugawa branch families. The Nabeshima lords began offering them annually in the mid-seventeenth century, and by the 1690s the wares had achieved a level of craftsmanship regarded as the pinnacle of Japanese porcelain production.
Artwork Details
- 色絵松竹梅宝球文皿
- Title:Dish with Sacred Jewels, Plum, Pine, and Bamboo
- Period:Edo period (1615–1868)
- Date:ca. 1690–1720s
- Culture:Japan
- Medium:Porcelain painted with cobalt blue under and polychrome enamels over a transparent glaze (Hizen ware, Nabeshima type)
- Dimensions:H. 1 3/4 in. (4.4 cm); Diam. 8 in. (20.3 cm)
- Classification:Ceramics
- Credit Line:Gift of Mrs. V. Everit Macy, 1923
- Object Number:23.225.302
- Curatorial Department: Asian Art
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ca. 1690–1720
1680–90s
ca. 1730–1760s
ca. 1734–37
early 17th century
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