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Set of Five Serving Bowls (Mukozuke) with Prunus Design
school of Ogata Kenzan (Japanese, 1663–1743)
1700s-1800s
- Medium
- Kyoto Ware: stoneware with underglaze iron oxide and slip decoration
- Classification
- Ceramic
- Dimensions
- Overall: 6.9 cm (2 11/16 in.); Each side: 9 cm (3 9/16 in.)
- Culture
- Japan, Edo period (1615–1868)
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art, Japanese Art
- Credit line
- Cornelia Blakemore Warner Fund and Edward L. Wittemore Fund
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its museum says too little about what it shows to place it for younger viewers. How works are placed
View at the Cleveland Museum of Art
About this work
Note the rough, tan, clay bodies of these bowls with their deliberate irregularities. The design of branches was first painted in a black iron oxide, then the blossoms and buds in a white slip, followed by the application of a very thin transparent overglaze.
