Small Dish with Floral Design
Early Nabeshima porcelain dishes, produced at the daimyos’ Iwayagawachi kiln in Arita, were typically small, irregularly shaped, colorful vessels. Among these, a rare group of innovative, palm-size dishes—popularized among 1960s art collectors and dealers as “Matsugatani type”—shows similarities to polychrome wares made at Arita’s privately owned, civilian kilns. However, no archaeological evidence yet found suggests that a kiln existed at Matsugatani.
Artwork Details
- 色絵唐花文変形皿
- Title: Small Dish with Floral Design
- Period: Edo period (1615–1868)
- Date: ca. 1650s
- Culture: Japan
- Medium: Porcelain with cobalt blue under transparent glaze and polychrome enamels over the glaze (Hizen ware, Nabeshima type)
- Dimensions: H. 1 1/8 in. (2.9 cm); W. 5 in. (12.7 cm); L. 6 3/8 in. (16.2 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: 1975.268.548
- Curatorial Department: Asian Art
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