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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.
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142640
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Square Dish with Design of Plovers over Waves
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142640
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Square Dish with Design of Plovers over Waves
description
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.
date
c. 1700
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en
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Q80042526
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Ceramic
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Overall: 22 x 22 x 2.7 cm (8 11/16 x 8 11/16 x 1 1/16 in.)
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Japan, Edo period (1615–1868)
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1966.365
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Glazed stoneware with iron oxide underglaze slip
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Square Dish with Design of Plovers over Waves (銹絵波に千鳥文角皿), 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
titleInOriginalLanguage
銹絵波に千鳥文角皿
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Japanese Art
inscriptions
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."
didYouKnow
The design of plovers flying over waves derives from Heian period (900s–1100s) literature and later lacquerware designs.
citations
citation
Zauhō Kankōkai 座右寶刋行會. <em>Sekai tōji zenshū</em> [世界陶磁全集= Ceramic Art of the World]. Vol. 5, Edo hen [江戶篇= Edo Period]. Edited by Tadamari Mitsuoka. Tōkyō: Kawade Shobō Shinsha, 1955.
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Reproduced: cat. no. 53; Mentioned: cat. no. 53, p. 288
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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. 285
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琳派: 創立百年記念特別展 = Rin-pa. Special exhibition celebrating the Centennial of the Tokyo National Museum. Tokyo: Tokyo National Museum 東京国立博物館, 1972.
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cat. no. 295
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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. 387
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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. 147, no. 150
citation
Cunningham, Michael R. “Painting the Silence: ‘Byōbu’ by Kaihō Yūshō.” <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 81, no. 10 (December 1994): 408–425.
page_number
Mentioned and reproduced: p. 419, fig. 12
citation
Maezaki, Shinya and Sinéad Vilbar. <em>Colors of Kyoto: The Seifū Yohei Ceramic Studio</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 2023.
page_number
Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 52, fig. 28
creditline
Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
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2026-05-29 07:19:20.443000
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142640
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Japanese Art
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Japanese Art
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Glazed stoneware with iron oxide underglaze slip
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