Plate, ceramic, wide bowl shape with flanged rim, brush stroked wisteria blossom decoration in blue and brown underglaze on center top, with a creamy white translucent overglaze, only the short foot is not glazed, many chip marks left from firing, broken and mended. Maximum diameter 29 cm, height 6 cm.
Donor:
Design Department (UC Berkeley) and George H. Kerr
Collection place:
Japan
Verbatim coll. place:
Japan; Seto, Owari Attr
Collection date:
1957
Materials:
Ceramic (material)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Plates (general, dishes)
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
1974
Department:
Asia (except western Russia)
Loans:
S1976-1977 #40: University Art Museum (UC Berkeley) (January 18, 1977–February 16, 1977) and S1976-1977 #62: University Art Museum (UC Berkeley) (April 4, 1977–July 20, 1977)