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Dish with Bamboo Leaves

Ogata Kenzan

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Round ceramic dish with a beige interior, brown rim and blue and brown painted bamboo leaves. The leaves are painted in a stylized manner with pointed tips. The blue lines are used for the stems and some leaves. The dish has a small foot at the bottom. The background of the image is a gradient from dark gray at the top to light gray at the bottom. The dish casts a shadow on the surface below it.

Artwork details

Date:
18th century
Medium:
Stoneware painted with cream slip, cobalt blue, and iron brown under transparent glaze; gold lacquer repairs
Culture:
Japan
Dimensions:
600 × 450 px
Museum record:
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