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Dish with Figures in a Chinese Garden

唐庭人物図皿

1700s
(1615-1868)
Porcelain with underglaze blue and overglaze color enamel and gold, with iron oxide rim (Arita ware)
height: 3.2 cm (1 1/4 in.); Diameter: 21 cm (8 1/4 in.)
Severance and Greta Millikin Collection 1964.257
Location: 235A Japanese
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Description

This dish is inscribed with a poem from The Gateless Gate, a text compiled by Chinese Chan (Zen) master Wumen Huikai (1183–1260). The verse reads, “I always remember the spring in Jiangnan. Where the partridges sing; how fragrant the countless flowers!”
Dish with Figures in a Chinese Garden

Dish with Figures in a Chinese Garden

1700s

Japan, Edo period (1615-1868)

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