Dish with Cherry Blossoms and Bundles of Brushwood
On this dish, the brushwood was executed in underglaze blue with fine lines. The cherry leaves are painted in yellow and green overglaze enamels to create subtle gradations, while the cherry blossoms themselves are rendered in bright red, accented with fine linear details—representing the peak of Nabeshima production.
Artwork Details
- 色絵束柴桜花文皿
- Title: Dish with Cherry Blossoms and Bundles of Brushwood
- Period: Edo period (1615–1868)
- Date: ca. 1690–1720s
- Culture: Japan
- Medium: Porcelain with cobalt blue under transparent glaze and polychrome enamels over the glaze (Hizen ware, Nabeshima type)
- Dimensions: H. 2 1/4 in. (5.7 cm); Diam. 8 in. (20.3 cm)
- Classification: Ceramics
- Credit Line: Gift of Mrs. V. Everit Macy, 1923
- Object Number: 23.225.318
- Curatorial Department: Asian Art
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1680–90s
early 17th century
ca. 1734–37
Kano Sansetsu (Japanese, 1590–1651)
1646
ca. 1690–1720s
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