dish;
storage box
- Museum number
- 2015,3045.1
- Title
- Object: 色絵濁手竹鳥文鉢 (Large dish with design of wagtail and bamboo)
- Description
-
Large, circular dish. Decorated with design of a wagtail resting on a branch of bamboo. Made of porcelain, painted with overglaze polychrome enamel. With paulownia storage box.
- Production date
- 1971
- Dimensions
-
Diameter: 45 centimetres
-
Height: 11.30 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- This large dish with its naturalistic painting of a wagtail resting on a delicate branch of bamboo is a masterwork by Sakaida Kakiemon XIII. In contrast to his father (Kakiemon XII) who favoured more traditional methods, Kakiemon XIII when possible sketched his own designs from nature and attempted to create new shapes and patterns to refresh the traditional Kakiemon artistic vocabulary.
In 1953, he and his father succeeded in recreating the famous later 17th-century creamy white porcelain body called nigoshide that had made earlier Kakiemon wares so attractive to European markets. In 1971, the nigoshide technique was designated a Important Cultural Property. In 1973, Kakiemon XIII was designated a holder of an Important Intangible Cultural Property or ‘Living National Treasure’ by the Japanese government. When designated, Kakiemon XIII created two large and generally similar dishes, one of which is now in the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo and this one, which was originally kept as a demonstration work for his workshop.
(NCR, 2015)
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
-
Exhibited:
2015 Oct-2016 Apr, BM Japanese Galleries, 'Japan from Prehistory to the Present'
2016 Jun 23 - Aug 21, BM Room 3, 'Made in Japan: Kakiemon and 400 years of Porcelain'
- Acquisition date
- 2015
- Department
- Asia
- Registration number
- 2015,3045.1