Decagonally-lobed dish with herons

Decagonally-lobed dish with herons (EA1985.47, top )

© Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford (image)

Details

Title

Decagonally-lobed dish with herons
Associated place

Arita (place of creation)

Japan (place of creation)
Date

2nd half of the 17th century
Edo Period (1600 - 1868)
Material and technique

porcelain, with underglaze painting in blue
Object type

dish
Dimensions

16.1 cm (diameter)
3.1 cm (height)
No. of items

1
Credit line

Bequeathed by Jeffrey Story and Walter Cook, 1985.
Museum location

not on display
Museum department

Eastern Art
Accession no.

EA1985.47

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Glossary of terms

porcelain

underglaze painting

Further reading

Impey, Oliver, The Early Porcelain Kilns of Japan: Arita in the First Half of the Seventeenth Century, Oxford Oriental Monographs (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1996), p. xi, pl. 29a (colour)

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