Dish

Museum number:
9-12435
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21090012435
Alternate number:
3286a (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.3032.05
Description:
Japan, Saga Prefecture (Hizen), Arita, Nangawara kilns (Kakiemon). Plate, porcelain with overglaze enamel decoration. Kakiemon ware. One of four. Flat bottom, shallow sides turn out, short scalloped rim that turns up. Underglaze blue double ring near center. Two birds (partridges?), one in yellow, the other in blue enamel with black detail within the rings. Two flowering trees and bamboo outside the rings in blue, green, and yellow enamel with red flowers. Dark blue underglaze saw-tooth pattern band on undersides with red zig-zag band near foot. Height 2.5 centimeters, rim diameter 20 centimeters.
Donor:
Anita Day Symmes Blake, Anson Stiles Blake, and Design Department (UC Berkeley)
Collection place:
Japan
Verbatim coll. place:
Japan, Saga Prefecture, (Hizen), Arita, Nangawara kilns, (Kakiemon)
Collector:
Anson Stiles Blake
Collection date:
pre-1962
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Dishes (vessels for food)
Function:
1.5 Household
Department:
Asia (except western Russia)
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Dish, accession number 9-12435, described as Japan, Saga Prefecture (Hizen), Arita, Nangawara kilns (Kakiemon). Plate, porcelain with overglaze enamel decoration. Kakiemon ware. One of four. Flat bottom, shallow sides turn out, short scalloped rim that turns up. Underglaze blue double ring near center. Two birds (partridges?), one in yellow, the other in blue enamel with black detail within the rings. Two flowering trees and bamboo outside the rings in blue, green, and yellow enamel with red flowers. Dark blue underglaze saw-tooth pattern band on undersides with red zig-zag band near foot. Height 2.5 centimeters, rim diameter 20 centimeters.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Dish, accession number 9-12435, described as Japan, Saga Prefecture (Hizen), Arita, Nangawara kilns (Kakiemon). Plate, porcelain with overglaze enamel decoration. Kakiemon ware. One of four. Flat bottom, shallow sides turn out, short scalloped rim that turns up. Underglaze blue double ring near center. Two birds (partridges?), one in yellow, the other in blue enamel with black detail within the rings. Two flowering trees and bamboo outside the rings in blue, green, and yellow enamel with red flowers. Dark blue underglaze saw-tooth pattern band on undersides with red zig-zag band near foot. Height 2.5 centimeters, rim diameter 20 centimeters.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Dish, accession number 9-12435, described as Japan, Saga Prefecture (Hizen), Arita, Nangawara kilns (Kakiemon). Plate, porcelain with overglaze enamel decoration. Kakiemon ware. One of four. Flat bottom, shallow sides turn out, short scalloped rim that turns up. Underglaze blue double ring near center. Two birds (partridges?), one in yellow, the other in blue enamel with black detail within the rings. Two flowering trees and bamboo outside the rings in blue, green, and yellow enamel with red flowers. Dark blue underglaze saw-tooth pattern band on undersides with red zig-zag band near foot. Height 2.5 centimeters, rim diameter 20 centimeters.

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