Octagonal Bottle with Flower, Plum, and Bamboo Design
Japan, Saga prefecture, Kakiemon kiln, Octagonal Bottle with Flower, Plum, and Bamboo Design, 1670s/1690s, porcelain with overglaze enamel and gold painting, Gift of Mary and Cheney Cowles, public domain, 2018.76.22
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- Title
Octagonal Bottle with Flower, Plum, and Bamboo Design
- Related Titles
original language: 花梅竹紋八角花瓶
- Date
1670s/1690s
- Period
Japan: Edo period (1615-1868)
- Medium
porcelain with overglaze enamel and gold painting
- Dimensions (H x W x D)
10 5/16 in x 6 1/8 in diam.
- Collection Area
Asian Art
- Category
Ceramics
Traditional Ceramics
- Object Type
bottle
- Culture
Japanese
- Credit Line
Gift of Mary and Cheney Cowles
- Accession Number
2018.76.22
- Copyright
public domain
- Terms
From Poetic Imagination in Japanese Art: Selections from the Collection of Mary and Cheney Cowles
The Kakiemon kiln in Arita was the first in Japan to master the difficult use of overglaze enamels to produce colors other than cobalt blue—especially a clear, strawberry red. Here, that red is judiciously combined with a clear green and underglaze blue. The delicate brushwork and large areas of negative space are typical of early Kakiemon designs.
- Exhibitions
2018 Poetic Imagination in Japanese Art: Selections from the Collection of Mary and Cheney Cowles Portland Art Museum
