Gourd Basket with Chrysanthemum Design (1700s): Art, History and Details

Gourd Basket with Chrysanthemum Design (1700s) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection. The museum's creator attribution is Ogata Kōrin (Japanese, 1658–1716).

The work and its context

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

This very rare basket is made from a carved gourd and inscribed on the bottom with the signature of Ogata Korin (1658– 1716), a painter and lacquerer who founded the Rimpa school. Here, he applied the chrysanthemums with white gesso in relief. This basket is decorated with opaque green paint, and its inside is lined with gold.

Object facts

• Title: Gourd Basket with Chrysanthemum Design
• Date: 1700s
• Creator attribution: Ogata Kōrin (Japanese, 1658–1716)
• Culture: Japan, Edo period (1615–1868)
• Type: Miscellaneous
• Technique: gourd; lacquered and painted with gesso, color, and gold pigments
• Dimensions: Overall: 16 x 30.2 cm (6 5/16 x 11 7/8 in.)
• Collection: Japanese Art
• Department: Japanese Art
• Accession number: 1963.101

Collection credit

Edward L. Whittemore Fund

Further reading listed by the museum

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

View the collection record

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