# Dish with Ginkgo Leaves

- Date: late 1600s–early 1700s
- Medium: Porcelain with underglaze blue (Hizen ware, Nabeshima type)
- Classification: Ceramic
- Dimensions: Diameter: 20 cm (7 7/8 in.)
- Culture: Japan, Edo period (1615–1868)
- Credit line: Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
- Museum: [Cleveland Museum of Art](https://clevelandart.org/art/2017.61)
- Rights: [Public domain (CC0)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2017.61/2017.61_web.jpg
- Who can see it: Tweens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

This dish is an example of the finest type of Japanese porcelain, Nabeshima-type Hizen ware. It has a complex, abstracted design of ginkgo leaves and “Chinese grasses” (karakusa) in underglaze blue that may be among the most interesting of the underglaze blue designs. The dish is the largest of the three standard-sized Nabeshima dishes for individual servings.