dish
- Museum number
- 1939,0519.13
- Description
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Circular dish. Decoration of pine saplings in underglaze blue; double lines in underglaze blue inside footring; single spur mark in centre of footring. Made of porcelain. Hirado ware.
- Production date
- 18thC
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 10 centimetres (footring)
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Diameter: 16.80 centimetres
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Height: 3.80 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- The two pine saplings are finely painted with a large amount of negative space. Good examples of 18th-century Hirado ware are relatively rare in Western collections. The double lines inside the footring suggest that this work was meant for presentation to the imperial court or to the Tokugawa shogunate. (NCR 2015)
Reproduced in David Hyatt King, "Hirado Porcelain: Its Dating," Transactions of the Oriental Ceramics Society (1980-81), fig. 7B.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1939
- Department
- Asia
- Registration number
- 1939,0519.13
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: 86
