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Square Dish with Design of Plovers over Waves

銹絵波に千鳥文角皿

c. 1700

designer

Ogata Kōrin 尾形光琳

(Japanese, 1658-1716)

dish by

Ogata Kenzan

(Japanese, 1663-1743)

Japan, Edo period

(1615-1868)

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.)

Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1966.365

Location

not on view

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.

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."

Provenance
Okochi Collection, Tokyo, Japan; Okochi Masatoshi
?-1966
(Setsu Gatodo Co., Ltd., Tokyo, Japan, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
1966-
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Citations
Zauhō Kankōkai 座右寶刋行會. Sekai tōji zenshū [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. Reproduced: cat. no. 53; Mentioned: cat. no. 53, p. 288
The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969. Reproduced: p. 285 archive.org
The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. Reproduced: p. 387 archive.org
Exhibition history

Rin-pa. Special exhibition celebrating the Centennial of the Tokyo National Museum. Tokyo National Museum, Tokyo, Japan (1972). cat. no. 295.

Later Japanese Art Rotation. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (February 10-May 6, 2003).

The World of Ceramics -- Masterpieces from The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (June 30-September 5, 1982).

Year in Review: 1967. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (November 29-December 31, 1967).

Rimpa. Japan Society Gallery, New York, NY (organizer) (September 13-November 13, 1971).

Rin-pa. Tokyo National Museum, Tokyo, Japan (organizer) (October 10-December 3, 1972).

Visions of Landscape: East and West. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (February 17-March 21, 1982).

Rimpa Painting. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 19-December 17, 1989).

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

Unfolding Beauty: Japanese Screens from the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (July 15-September 16, 2001).

Asian Journeys: Collecting Art in Post-war America. The Asia Society Museum, New York, NY (organizer) (February 10-August 9, 2009).

Rinpa (琳派) (Japanese gallery rotation) 235. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (April 23-October 3, 2021).

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