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Square Dish with Design of Plovers over Waves
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About this work
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.
Cleveland Museum of Art’s own descriptionCredit lineSquare 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
