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Dish with Ginkgo Leaves
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About this work
This dish is an example of the finest type of Japanese porcelain, Nabeshima-type Hizen ware. It has a complex, abstracted design of ginkgo leaves and “Chinese grasses” ( karakusa ) in underglaze blue that may be among the most interesting of the underglaze blue designs. The dish is the largest of the three standard-sized Nabeshima dishes for individual servings.
Cleveland Museum of Art’s own descriptionCredit lineDish with Ginkgo Leaves (染付銀杏唐花文皿), late 1600s–early 1700s. Japan, Edo period (1615–1868). Porcelain with underglaze blue (Hizen ware, Nabeshima type); diameter: 20 cm (7 7/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund, 2017.61
