Large Dish with Landscape (1750s–80s): Art, History and Details

Large Dish with Landscape (1750s–80s) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection.

The work and its context

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

The motif in the central medallion of this large dish depicts a knotted pine tree on the right with branches of pine needles forming triangular shapes resembling mountains in a distant landscape. Above and below the branches are three cloud bands in alternating light and dark washes of cobalt blue. In the foreground, a small blooming orchid reaches toward the left of the dish, balancing the gentle sway of the pine tree.

Object facts

• Title: Large Dish with Landscape
• Date: 1750s–80s
• Culture: Japan, Edo period (1615–1868)
• Type: Ceramic
• Technique: porcelain with underglaze blue and molded decoration
• Dimensions: Overall: 6.3 x 32.3 cm (2 1/2 x 12 11/16 in.)
• Collection: Japanese Art
• Department: Japanese Art
• Accession number: 2020.196

Collection credit

Nancy F. and Joseph P. Keithley Collection Gift

Further reading listed by the museum

• Rousmaniere, Nicole Coolidge. "Japanese Ceramics." In The Keithley Collection at the Cleveland Museum of Art, edited by Heather Lemonedes Brown, 230-–51. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 2022.

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