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Plate with Bird and Flower
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About this work
This dish is a sophisticated example of later ceramists reinterpreting earlier styles of Japanese porcelain. The colors and patterns used look similar to some works produced on the island of Kyushu in the1600s and 1700s. However, the idea to combine alternating blocks of yellow, green, purple, and blue with a "Chinese grasses" ( karakusa ) pattern around the rim of the dish is one hit upon in the early 1900s by an artist familiar with the colors and patterns of earlier works.
Cleveland Museum of Art’s own descriptionCredit linePlate with Bird and Flower, early 1900s. Japan, Meiji period (1868–1912) or Taishō period (1912–26). Porcelain with overglaze enamel (Ko-Kutani revival style); diameter: 37.5 cm (14 3/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Mrs. Terrence O. Kennedy in memory of her husband, Terrence O. Kennedy, 1969.253
