Square Dish with Design of Plovers over Waves
c. 1700
Ogata Kōrin
Ogata Kōrin (Japanese, 1658–1716)
Japanese Art
Square Dish with Design of Plovers over Waves, c. 1700. Ogata Kōrin (Japanese, 1658–1716), Ogata Kenzan (Japanese, 1663–1743). Glazed stoneware with iron oxide underglaze slip; overall: 22 x 22 x 2.7 cm (8 11/16 x 8 11/16 x 1 1/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1966.365 The Ogata brothers Kōrin and Kenzan often collaborated on ceramics. This dish is one of a set used for serving tea cakes. Kenzan shaped the dish, after which Kōrin drew the iron oxide design of plovers, a type of shorebird, flying over waves. Kenzan then covered the object with a clear glaze and fired it. Kōrin placed his signature next to his design, while Kenzan signed the back.
- Maker/Artist
- Ogata Kōrin
- Classification
- Ceramic
- Formatted Medium
- Glazed stoneware with iron oxide underglaze slip
- Dimensions
- Overall: 22 x 22 x 2.7 cm (8 11/16 x 8 11/16 x 1 1/16 in.)
- Inscribed
- Inscription: design painted by Korin and signed "Jakumei Korin Gaku"; inner and outer faces of four walls probably painted by an assistant at the kiln, underside of dish signed, "Kenzan."
- Departments
- Japanese Art
- Accession Number
- 1966.365
- Credit Line
- Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
- Exhibitions
- Year in Review: 1967, Rimpa, Rin-pa, Visions of Landscape: East and West, Rimpa Painting, Asian Autumn: Splendid Variety: 18th-Century Art in Japan, Unfolding Beauty: Japanese Screens from the Cleveland Museum of Art, Asian Journeys: Collecting Art in Post-war America, Rinpa (琳派) (Japanese gallery rotation) 235, <em>Rin-pa</em>. Special exhibition celebrating the Centennial of the Tokyo National Museum. Tokyo National Museum, Tokyo, Japan (1972). cat. no. 295., <em>Later Japanese Art Rotation</em>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (February 10-May 6, 2003)., <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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