- Provenance
- Provenance research underway.
- Description
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Sweetmeat dish: oblong with curved ends, flaring sides. Heavily potted, thick square-cut foot, undamaged condition.
Clay: fine, smooth, white porcelain.
Glaze: clear porcelain glaze, medium gloss; a few pinholes at rim.
Decoration: painted in underglaze cobalt blue. Curved panels radiating from center panel extend over the rim to the outside ending at foot which is banded with a double line. Two each of four different familiar diaper patterns alternate in the panels, including reverse swastika, overlapping wave or scales.
Inscription: on base in underglaze blue.
- Inscription(s)
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The inscription on the base of this serving dish states clearly that it is a copy (utsushi) by "Tamikichi of Seto" of a work by the legendary figure Gorodayu Go Shonzui.
On base in underglaze blue, "Gorodayu/Go Shonzui/Seto Tamikichi/kore [wo] utsusu" (Gorodayu Go Shonzui, copied by Tamikichi of Seto), followed by Tamikichi's cipher.
- Published References
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- Louise Allison Cort. Seto and Mino Ceramics. Washington and Honolulu, 1992. cat. 123, p. 47.
- Collection Area(s)
- Japanese Art
- Web Resources
- Google Cultural Institute
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