An Enamelled Earthenware Square Dish

KENZAN WARE, EDO PERIOD (18TH CENTURY), SIGNED ON BASE KENZAN (OGATA KENZAN [1663-1743])

Details

An Enamelled Earthenware Square Dish
Kenzan Ware, Edo period (18th century), signed on base Kenzan (Ogata Kenzan [1663-1743])
Fine-grained buff clay; slab, draped over mold and trimmed, painted on the interior in blue and green enamels with three irises and around the four sides with flower blossoms and wisteria in blue enamel, the edge of the rim and bevel on base painted in iron oxide, all covered in a transparent lead glaze fused at low temperature
6 5/8 x 6 5/8 x 1 1/8in. (16.8 x 16.8 x 2.9cm.)
With wood box inscribed on the underside of the lid Goto bijutsukan shuppin

Exhibited

Kyoto Prefectural Library and Archives, "Togei sirizu 2-Iroe koto" (Ceramic series 2: Old polychrome ceramics), 1966.7.5-31

The Gotoh Museum, Tokyo

Lot Essay

PUBLISHED:
Kyoto Prefectural Library and Archives, ed., Togei sirizu 2-Iroe koto (Ceramic series 2: Old polychrome ceramics) (Kyoto: Kyoto Prefectural Library and Archives, 1966), no. 32.

This dish was probably made as one of a set of flowers of the twelve months in the popular, decorative Rinpa style. The square shape suggests the traditional format of a poem card, or shikishi.

For a painting by Kenzan, see lot 34.

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