dish
- Museum number
- Franks.1704
- Description
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Lobed dish. Birds and butterfly in central rocky landscape; with border of panels of auspicious motifs; on underside flowers. Made of porcelain enamelled in overglaze colours in Kokutani style. Inscribed.
- Production date
- 1640s-1650s
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 23.20 centimetres
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Height: 3 centimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Smith et al 1990
The designs on 'five colour' (gosaide) pieces were copied from more refined Chinese originals. This typical piece has a border of lotus-shaped panels filled with varied patterns and symbols, and a central roundel of birds on a rock besides a tree peony. The rather rough boldness of enamelling in sombre colours is very much in Japanese taste.
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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Exhibited:
19 Jul-21 Oct 2007, BM Galleries, Crafting Beauty in Modern Japan
- Acquisition notes
- The Asian ceramics donated by Sir Augustus Wollaston Franks were recorded in a sequence on index cards (known as the ‘Franks Index Cards’), held in the Dept of Asia.
- Department
- Asia
- Registration number
- Franks.1704
