Dish with Weeping Cherry Tree
late 1800s
Maker Unknown
Japanese Art
Dish with Weeping Cherry Tree, late 1800s. Japan, Meiji period (1868-1912). Porcelain with underglaze blue and overglaze red enamel (Hizen ware, Nabeshima type); diameter: 15 cm (5 7/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Sherman E. Lee 1963.97 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.
- Maker/Artist
- Maker Unknown
- Classification
- Ceramic
- Formatted Medium
- Porcelain with underglaze blue and overglaze red enamel (Hizen ware, Nabeshima type)
- Dimensions
- Diameter: 15 cm (5 7/8 in.)
- Departments
- Japanese Art
- Accession Number
- 1963.97
- Credit Line
- Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Sherman E. Lee
- Exhibitions
- Year in Review (1963), <em>Japanese Prints and Ceramics from The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Toledo Museum of Art, and The Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College</em>. College of Wooster, Wooster, OH (October 9-November 1, 1981).
- Rights Statement
- CC0
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