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Dish with Figures in a Chinese Garden
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This dish is inscribed with a poem from The Gateless Gate , a text compiled by Chinese Chan (Zen) master Wumen Huikai (1183–1260). The verse reads, “I always remember the spring in Jiangnan. Where the partridges sing; how fragrant the countless flowers!”
Cleveland Museum of Art’s own descriptionCredit lineDish with Figures in a Chinese Garden (唐庭人物図皿), 1700s. Japan, Edo period (1615–1868). Porcelain with underglaze blue and overglaze color enamel and gold, with iron oxide rim (Arita ware); height: 3.2 cm (1 1/4 in.); diameter: 21 cm (8 1/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Severance and Greta Millikin Collection, 1964.257
