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Dish with Design of Plum Trees: Shino Ware

Cleveland Museum of Art

Dish with Design of Plum Trees: Shino Ware, an irregularly shaped ceramic dish with a beige crackled glaze and an unglazed burnt orange rim; the interior features burnt orange and black underglaze slip painted design of a plum tree. The dish is octagonal with eight sides of roughly equal length. The design on the interior features a tree with a single trunk and several branches; the branches have no leaves except for clusters of three rounded leaves at their ends. The exterior has a mottled orange and grey glaze. The background of the image is a gradient from black at the top to light gray at the bottom.

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Dimensions:
900 × 837 px
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