Dish with rocks, flowers, and birds
Unknown
1710–30 · Hard-paste porcelain with colored enamels under transparent glaze (Hizen ware; Imari type) · European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
The dense Imari-style patterns on this dish embed numerous reworkings of traditional bird-and-flower motifs drawn from Asian textile and painting traditions. These frame a more conventional arrangement of bird, rock, and tree at water's edge that is Chinese inspired.
- Artist
- Unknown
- Date
- 1710–30
- Medium
- Hard-paste porcelain with colored enamels under transparent glaze (Hizen ware; Imari type)
- Culture
- Japanese, for European market
- Department
- European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
- Credit line
- The Hans Syz Collection, Gift of Stephan B. Syz and John D. Syz, 1995
