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Deep Dish with Birds, Flowers, and Insects

first half 18th century
On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 227
From the mid- to late Edo period, the Kakiemon kiln in Hizen, a major porcelain-producing region in Kyushu, made wares chiefly for the Japanese market. Its principal products were blue-and-white porcelains painted using cobalt blue under a transparent glaze and richly colored polychrome-overglaze enamel porcelains often enhanced with gold (kinrande). Kakiemon wares circulated widely through domestic trade networks, especially along shipping routes in the Sea of Japan. Hizen, or Imari wares—the broader name for porcelains shipped from the port of Imari—were carried by kitamaebune, merchant cargo vessels that linked western Japan to northern ports. These ships helped distribute Hizen ceramics as far as Hokkaido, and examples survive today in communities along the Sea of Japan.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • 染付花鳥虫文鉢
  • Title: Deep Dish with Birds, Flowers, and Insects
  • Period: Edo period (1615–1868)
  • Date: first half 18th century
  • Culture: Japan
  • Medium: Porcelain with cobalt blue under transparent glaze (Hizen ware, Kakiemon type)
  • Dimensions: H. 2 1/8 in. (5.4 cm); Diam. 9 5/8 in. (24.4 cm); Diam.of foot: 5 1/2 in. (14 cm)
  • Classification: Ceramics
  • Credit Line: Dr. and Mrs. Roger G. Gerry Collection, Bequest of Dr. and Mrs. Roger G. Gerry, 2000
  • Object Number: 2002.447.59
  • Curatorial Department: Asian Art

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