Blue-and-white plate with landscape design / Artist Unknown, Hizen ware, Japan
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Record Details
- Accession Number
- 1963/2.62
- Title
- Blue-and-white plate with landscape design
- Artist Nationality
- Japanese
- Medium and Support
- porcelain, blue underglaze painting
- Object Creation Date
- 1615-1643
- Object Creation Place
- Asia (continent)
- Japan (nation)
- Kyushu-chiho (region)
- Saga (prefecture)
- Arita (city)
- Creation Place 1
- Asia (continent)
- Creation Place 2
- Japan (nation)
- Creation Place 3
- Kyushu-chiho (region)
- Creation Place 4
- Saga (prefecture)
- Creation Place 5
- Arita (city)
- Dimensions
- 3.2 cm x 20.9 cm x 21 cm (1 1/4 in. x 8 1/4 in. x 8 1/4 in.)
- Century
- 17th century
- Primary Object Classification
- Ceramic
- Primary Object Type
- plate
- Secondary Object Classification
- Decorative Arts
- Physical Description
- A medium size plate has blue-and-white underglaze painting of landscape. There are two groups of mountains; one of the left has two large rocks flanked by two smaller mountains with a few trees on the tops. Three smaller rocks peek from the water. On the right side, a range of gently sloped mountains and a rock are drawn. There are two fishing boats with masts can be seen in front of the mountain range. The crescent moon, shadowed by one side, is in the sky. The drawing is executed in thick underglaze and painted in lighter glaze. There are brown speckles on the surface; reddish color stains on the top of the rim. Some chips on the rim and on the back. The foot is unglazed; eye is glazed. There is a single band around the rim.
- Subject Matter
- The landscape of mountains, a lake, and fish boats under the moon is derived from Chinese landscape painting, perhaps from the Eight Views of the Hsiao-Hsiang District, a classic theme in Southern Sung ink painting.
- Primary Keywords
- boats, fishing
- lakes
- landscape (representation)
- moons, crescent
- mountains
- plate (dish)
- Secondary Keywords
- upward
- bodies of water
- bodies of water and components of bodies of water
- bodies of water by size
- buildings and the land
- containers
- containers by function or context
- containers for serving and consuming food
- culinary containers
- descriptors
- design elements
- dishes
- hunting and commercial fishing vessels
- lacustrine bodies
- landforms
- landforms and landform components
- landforms by shape or position
- landscapes (environments)
- motifs
- natural element motifs
- natural landscapes
- objects we use
- settlements and landscapes
- transportation vehicles
- vehicles
- vessels for serving and consuming food
- visual works
- visual works by subject type
- watercraft
- watercraft by function
- watercraft by specific type
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- Collection
- University of Michigan Museum of Art
- Image Size
- 919 x 793
- File Size
- 33 KB
- Record
- 1963/2.62
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"Blue-and-white plate with landscape design; Artist Unknown, Hizen ware, Japan." In the digital collection University of Michigan Museum of Art. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-1963-sl-2.62/1963_2.62.jpg. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 16, 2024.
