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Source Description
Mino ware is stoneware produced in the Mino area of present-day Gifu prefecture in central Japan. Works like this piece are called <em>nezumi-shino</em>, or “mouse-gray” Shino, after the glazing technique. The gray color and white design of grasses were achieved by applying an iron oxide slip to the surface and carving through it to the white clay, and then covering the whole surface in glaze and firing the object. In its design, this serving dish emulates Chinese ceramic prototypes, but its shape recalls wooden and lacquered trays commonly used in Japan at the time.
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142478
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Dish with Autumn Grasses and Rocks
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142478
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Dish with Autumn Grasses and Rocks
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Mino ware is stoneware produced in the Mino area of present-day Gifu prefecture in central Japan. Works like this piece are called <em>nezumi-shino</em>, or “mouse-gray” Shino, after the glazing technique. The gray color and white design of grasses were achieved by applying an iron oxide slip to the surface and carving through it to the white clay, and then covering the whole surface in glaze and firing the object. In its design, this serving dish emulates Chinese ceramic prototypes, but its shape recalls wooden and lacquered trays commonly used in Japan at the time.
date
late 1500s–early 1600s
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en
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Q60748853
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Ceramic
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Overall: 20 cm (7 7/8 in.)
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Japan, Momoyama period (1573-1615) to Edo period (1615-1858)
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1966.24
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Stoneware with underglaze iron oxide slip and incised designs (Mino ware, Shino type)
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Dish with Autumn Grasses and Rocks (鼠志野岩に秋草図額皿), late 1500s–early 1600s. Japan, Momoyama period (1573-1615) to Edo period (1615-1858). Stoneware with underglaze iron oxide slip and incised designs (Mino ware, Shino type); overall: 20 cm (7 7/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund, 1966.24
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鼠志野岩に秋草図額皿
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Japanese Art
citations
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The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966.
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Reproduced: p. 281
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Lerner, Martin. “Tea-Ceremony Pottery and Export Porcelain.” <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 54, no. 9 (November 1967): 267–278, 290–292B.
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Mentioned and Reproduced: pp. 271–272, fig. 3
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The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969.
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Reproduced: p. 281
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The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978.
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Reproduced: p. 380
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Neils, Jenifer. <em>The World of Ceramics: Masterpieces from the Cleveland Museum of Art</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Museum in cooperation with Indiana University Press, 1982.
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Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 143, no. 146
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John L. Severance Fund
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2026-05-29 07:18:52.031000
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142478
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Japanese Art
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Japanese Art
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Stoneware with underglaze iron oxide slip and incised designs (Mino ware, Shino type)
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