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ca. 1650 · Porcelain painted with overglaze enamels (Hizen ware, Ko Kutani style) · Asian Art

This dish, with its sophisticated shape and complex design of a chrysanthemum flower seen from both the front and the back, exemplifies early porcelain in the Ko Kutani style, produced in the former Hizen domain. The Chinese character for good fortune (fuku in Japanese) marks the inside of the foot.

Artist

Unknown

Date

ca. 1650

Medium

Porcelain painted with overglaze enamels (Hizen ware, Ko Kutani style)

Culture

Japan

Department

Asian Art

Credit line

Gift of Charles Stewart Smith, 1893