Hexagonal Jar (late 1600s): Art, History and Details
Hexagonal Jar at the Cleveland Museum of Art: late 1600s, One of a pair; porcelain with overglaze color enamel and gold decoration (Hizen ware, Kakiemon type). Explore the work's context, creator attribution and collection history.
Hexagonal Jar (late 1600s) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection.
The work and its context
The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:
This kakiemon-type jar with plum design is a product made for the European markets. Here, Japanese kakiemon potters transformed the typical plum, bamboo, and pine motifs into a theme appreciating the plum. The 9th-century Japanese scholar and politician Sugawara Michizane established the plum as a symbol of scholarship. An excellent poet, particularly of Chinese-style poetry, he was also well known for his love of plum blossoms. Later, the plum came to represent tenmangu, a shrine for Sugawara.
Object facts
- Title: Hexagonal Jar
- Date: late 1600s
- Culture: Japan, Edo period (1615–1868)
- Type: Ceramic
- Technique: One of a pair; porcelain with overglaze color enamel and gold decoration (Hizen ware, Kakiemon type)
- Dimensions: Overall: 26.8 x 18.6 cm (10 9/16 x 7 5/16 in.)
- Collection: Japanese Art
- Department: Japanese Art
- Accession number: 1964.273.1
Collection credit
Severance and Greta Millikin Collection
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