Collection Online as of January 20, 2021

Pair of Dishes with Singing Bird on a Rock

1700s

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Japan, Edo period

(1615-1868)

Porcelain with underglaze blue and overglaze enamel decoration (Hizen ware, Ko-Kutani type)

Diameter: 20.8 cm (8 3/16 in.); Overall: 3.3 cm (1 5/16 in.)

Severance and Greta Millikin Collection 1964.262

Location

not on view

Provenance

(K. J. Hewett, Ltd., London); Severance and Greta Millikin, Cleveland, 1960.

Exhibition history

Cleveland Museum of Art (7/5–9/2/1990): “The Severance and Greta Millikin Collection”

The Severance and Greta Millikin Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 5-September 2, 1990).

Asian Autumn: Splendid Variety: 18th-Century Art in Japan. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 16, 1993-March 6, 1994).