Large Dish with Persimmon Branch (mid- to late 1600s): Art, History and Details

Large Dish with Persimmon Branch (mid- to 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 large plate is considered to have been produced in Kyushu, and is in a palette of Ko-Kutani style works called aode (literally, bluish-green hand) for the deep blue, green, purple, and yellow overglaze enamels that completely cover their surfaces. Ko-Kutani means “old Kutani,” and can refer to two kinds of porcelains. One kind is said to have been produced in the village of Kutani in present-day Ishikawa prefecture in the mid-1600s through the early 1700s. The other kind, decorated with similar glazes and designs, was produced in the former Arita domain of present-day Saga prefecture in Kyushu.

Object facts

• Title: Large Dish with Persimmon Branch
• Date: mid- to late 1600s
• Culture: Japan, Edo period (1615–1868)
• Type: Ceramic
• Technique: Porcelain with underglaze black and overglaze enamel (Hizen ware, Ko-Kutani style)
• Dimensions: Diameter: 33.4 cm (13 1/8 in.); height: 6.2 cm (2 7/16 in.)
• Collection: Japanese Art
• Department: Japanese Art
• Accession number: 1964.245

A detail from the museum

Persimmons ripen in autumn and are often associated with that time of year.

Collection credit

Severance and Greta Millikin Collection

Further reading listed by the museum

• Cunningham, Michael R., Stanislaw J. Czuma, Anne E. Wardwell, and J. Keith Wilson. Masterworks of Asian Art. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1998.

View the collection record

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