Ten-sided dish
early 18th century
In this Japanese depiction of a yellow tiger, the banded hedge motif accompanies the bamboo and prunus decoration. The banded hedge appears here in the form of an enclosure of grasses or reeds bound with cloth bands and encircling the trunk of each tree. Of the nineteen types of fences and hedges defined during the mid-fifteenth century in the Japanese rules of gardening, the banded hedge was the most respected.
Hard paste porcelain
5 1/2in. (14cm), diam.
height: 1 1/8in. (2.9cm)
Gift of Martha and Henry Isaacson
76.98
Provenance: Collection of Mr and Mrs Henry and Martha Isaacson, unknown purchase date until 1976; gift from Mr and Mrs Henry and Martha Isaacson to Seattle Art Museum, Washington, 1976
