Large plate

late 17th century

This plate is Imari ware, a style of decorated porcelain named for the seaport near Arita, Japan, from where it was exported. Characterized by a palette of underglaze cobalt blue and overglaze enamels in iron red and vibrant gold, exquisite Japanese Imari porcelains of this type once graced the walls of European porcelain rooms.

Hard paste porcelain

3 3/8 in. (8.6 cm), height

21 1/4 in. (54 cm), diameter

Floyd A. Naramore Memorial Purchase Fund and by exchange

76.22

Now on view at the Seattle Art Museum

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SAM's Porcelain Room

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Exhibition HistorySeattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, "Porcelain Stories: From China to Europe", February 17, 2000-May 7, 2000 (2/17/2000 - 5/7/2000)

Published ReferencesEmerson, Julie, Jennifer Chen, & Mimi Gardner Gates, "Porcelain Stories, From China to Europe", Seattle Art Museum, 2000, pg. 180

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