Dish with Two Men Playing Go (1700s): Art, History and Details

Dish with Two Men Playing Go (1700s) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection.

The work and its context

The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:

This modest serving dish is decorated with two figures playing chess, or go in Japanese. The green color is typical of kutani porcelain. This dish was produced for the export market after Japan replaced China as Europe’s primary source for export porcelain.

Object facts

• Title: Dish with Two Men Playing Go
• Date: 1700s
• Culture: Japan, Edo period (1615–1868)
• Type: Ceramic
• Technique: porcelain, molded, with overglaze color enamel (Hizen ware, Imari style)
• Dimensions: Overall: 2.4 x 13.8 cm (15/16 x 5 7/16 in.)
• Collection: Japanese Art
• Department: Japanese Art
• Accession number: 1964.260

Collection credit

Severance and Greta Millikin Collection

Further reading listed by the museum

• Sŏn, Sŭng-hye. The Lure of Painted Poetry: Japanese and Korean Art. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2011.

View the collection record

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