Dish with Sweet Osmanthus and Cloud
Unknown Artist
late 1600s-early 1700s
Medium
Porcelain with underglaze blue and overglaze color enamel (Hizen ware, Nabeshima type)
Dimensions
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Classification
Ceramic
Department
Japanese Art
Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art
Credit
Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
Accession Number
2017.63
About this artwork
The dish is an example of the finest type of early Japanese porcelain, Nabeshima-type Hizen ware. It is decorated with sweet osmanthus, or fragrant olive tree, with iron-red flowers and green and yellow enamels on the leaves. A band of misty clouds in underglaze blue completes the composition. The osmanthus tree was imported from China to southern Japan.