Square Dish
1710-1730
Ogata Kenzan
Japanese, 1663-1743
Asian Art
When brothers Ogata Kenzan and Ogata Kōrin collaborated on ceramic pieces, they most commonly used flat, squared dishes in a creamy white clay that mimicked a paper surface. Kenzan made the simple clay forms and added the calligraphy, while Kōrin contributed the pictorial elements. The subject of this painting is the Daoist god of longevity, with his distinctive elongated head. Although this dish bears signatures of both artists, there is significant disagreement among scholars about whether those signatures are authentic.
- Maker/Artist
- Ogata Kenzan
- Classification
- Ceramic
- Formatted Medium
- Earthenware with underglaze iron-oxide painted decoration
- Medium
- earthenware, underglaze, iron-oxide, painted, decoration
- Locations
- Place made: Japan
- Period
- Edo Period
- Dimensions
- 1 1/4 x 8 3/4 x 8 3/4 in. (3.1 x 22.3 x 22.3 cm)
- Departments
- Asian Art
- Accession Number
- 40.505
- Credit Line
- A. Augustus Healy Fund
- Exhibitions
- Japanese Ceramics, Arts of Japan
- Rights Statement
- Creative Commons-BY
- Museum Location
- Asian Galleries, North, 2nd floor (Japan)
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