Deep dish with landscape design and roundels

1640 - 50s

Landscape designs on Kokutani and early Imari porcelain were often modeled after Ming dynasty pattern books. The wares also borrowed their five-color scheme and texture from Chinese sources.

Arita ware, gosai-de Kokutani type; porcelain with overglaze enamels

Diameter: 12 3/8in. (31.4cm)

Eugene Fuller Memorial Collection

52.102

Photo: Paul Macapia

Not currently on view

Resources

Exhibition HistorySan Francisco, California, M. H. de Young Memorial Museum, Treasures of Japan, 1960.

Cleveland, Ohio, Cleveland Museum of Art, Japanese Decorative Style, 1961.

St. Louis, Missouri, City Art Museum, 1970.

Seattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, A Thousand Cranes: Treasures Of Japanese Art, Feb. 5 - July 12, 1987.

Tokyo, Japan, Suntory Museum of Art, Luminous Jewels: Masterpieces of Asian Art From the Seattle Art Museum, July 25 - Sept. 6, 2009 (Kobe, Japan, Kobe City Museum, Sept. 19 - Dec. 6, 2009; Kofu, Japan, Yamanashi Prefectural Museum of Art, Dec. 23, 2009 - Feb. 28, 2010; Atami, Japan, MOA Museum of Art, Mar. 13 - May 9, 2010; Fukuoka, Japan, Fukuoka Art Museum, May 23 - July 19, 2010).

Seattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, Luminous: The Art of Asia, Oct. 13, 2011 - Jan. 8, 2012.

Published ReferencesFuller, Richard E. "Japanese Art in the Seattle Art Museum: An Historical Sketch." Seattle, WA: Seattle Art Museum, 1960 ("Presented in commemoration of the Hundredth Anniversary of Diplomatic Relations between Japan and the United States of America"), no. 161

"Selected Works." Seattle, WA: Seattle Art Museum, 1991, p. 196

Kawai, Masatomo, Yasuhiro Nishioka, Yukiko Sirahara, editors, "Luminous Jewels: Masterpieces of Asian Art From the Seattle Art Museum", 2009, The Yomiuri Shimbun, catalogue number 69

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