Octagonal bowl with floral design

1670 - 90s

Kakiemon-type porcelain, with its milky white body and blue, green and red enamels, was made primarily for export to Southeast Asia and the West. This example would originally have been part of a set of ten or twenty bowls.

Arita ware, Kakiemon type, porcelain with overglaze enamels

2 7/8 x 4 1/4in.

Gift of Martha and Henry Isaacson

76.97

Photo: Paul Macapia

Not currently on view

Resources

Exhibition HistorySeattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, Porcelain Stories: From China to Europe, Feb. 17 - May 7, 2000.

Seattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, Japan Envisions the West: 16th - 19th Century Japanese Art from the Kobe City Museum, Oct. 7, 2007 - Jan. 8, 2008.

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 ReferencesKawai, Masatomo, Yasuhiro Nishioka, Yukiko Sirahara, editors, "Luminous Jewels: Masterpieces of Asian Art From the Seattle Art Museum", 2009, The Yomiuri Shimbun, catalogue number 24

Shirahara, Yukiko. "Japan Envisions the West: 16th - 19th Century Japanese Art from the Kobe City Museum." Seattle, WA: Seattle Art Museum, 2007, pl. 130, p. 170

Emerson, Julie, Jennifer Chen, & Mimi Gardner Gates. "Porcelain Stories, From China to Europe." Seattle, WA: Seattle Art Museum, 2000, p. 166

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