Dish with Weeping Cherry Tree (late 1800s): Art, History and Details
Dish with Weeping Cherry Tree at the Cleveland Museum of Art: late 1800s, Porcelain with underglaze blue and overglaze red enamel (Hizen ware, Nabeshima type). Explore the work's context, creator attribution and collection history.
Dish with Weeping Cherry Tree (late 1800s) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection.
The work and its context
The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:
This dish depicts a cherry tree (sakuragi) whose flower-laden branches are the centerpiece while the sliver of a trunk and roots appear on the left edge. The sakura blossoms are delicately depicted in an iron-red overglaze. The flowers’ various positions (facing out and downward) and stages of maturity (bud and full bloom) enhance the naturalism and dynamism of the image.
Object facts
- Title: Dish with Weeping Cherry Tree
- Date: late 1800s
- Culture: Japan, Meiji period (1868–1912)
- Type: Ceramic
- Technique: Porcelain with underglaze blue and overglaze red enamel (Hizen ware, Nabeshima type)
- Dimensions: Diameter: 15 cm (5 7/8 in.)
- Collection: Japanese Art
- Department: Japanese Art
- Accession number: 1963.97
Collection credit
Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Sherman E. Lee
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See the museum's photographs and full catalogue entry. Catalogue text is reproduced from the Cleveland Museum of Art's open-access data, with HTML formatting removed. This object and its supplied image are designated CC0.
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