Minneapolis Institute of Art

Deep Dish with Chrysanthemum in a Stream

Japan

Date

mid 17th century

Medium

Arita ware, Imari type, porcelain with celadon glaze and underglaze cobalt blue

Department

Asian Art

Institution

Minneapolis Institute of Art

The center of this deep, fluted dish features a large white chrysanthemum partially submerged in a flowing stream with a pair of geese flying nearby. This simple design—which was also a popular design for textiles of the time—is made using a variant of the porcelain technique sometsuke (designs painted in blue on white pottery) known as seiji (celadon) sometsuke . The artist first glazed the entire dish in blue-green celadon, scraped away the area that would become the stream and chrysanthemum to reveal the white beneath, painted the blue design with a brush, and then covered the entire dish with a final, clear glaze before firing. Japan, Asia

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