Dish with Lotus in Rui-Head-Shaped Cartouches
mid-1800s
Maker Unknown
Japanese Art
Dish with Lotus in Rui-Head-Shaped Cartouches, mid-1800s. Japan, Edo period (1615-1868). Porcelain with underglaze blue and overglaze enamel (Hizen ware, Nabeshima type); diameter: 20.4 cm (8 1/16 in.); overall: 5.6 cm (2 3/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Severance and Greta Millikin Collection 1964.258 A ruyi is a curved decorative object with a head like a cloud or lingzhi mushroom.
- Maker/Artist
- Maker Unknown
- Classification
- Ceramic
- Formatted Medium
- Porcelain with underglaze blue and overglaze enamel (Hizen ware, Nabeshima type)
- Dimensions
- Diameter: 20.4 cm (8 1/16 in.); Overall: 5.6 cm (2 3/16 in.)
- Departments
- Japanese Art
- Accession Number
- 1964.258
- Credit Line
- Severance and Greta Millikin Collection
- Exhibitions
- Japanese Decorative Style, The Severance and Greta Millikin Collection, <em>Exhibition of Old Japanese Ceramics and Chinese Fine Arts</em>. Osaka, Japan (1934)., <em>The World of Ceramics: Masterpieces from the Cleveland Museum of Art</em>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (June 30-September 5, 1982).
- Rights Statement
- CC0
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