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Square dish with design of a courtier gazing at a waterfall


銹絵観瀑図角皿
Ogata Kenzan (Japanese, 1663–1743)
Painted by: Ogata Kôrin (Japanese, 1658–1716)
Japanese
Edo period
1710

Medium/Technique Kyoto ware; stoneware with underglaze iron
Dimensions Overall: 2.9 x 21.8 x 21.8cm (1 1/8 x 8 9/16 x 8 9/16in.)
Credit Line Morse Collection. Museum purchase with funds donated by contribution
Accession Number92.6736
CollectionsAsia
ClassificationsCeramicsPotteryStoneware

Signed Signed Kenzan Shô sho with seals Shôko, Tôin; Kôrin ga
乾山省書 印 尚古 陶隠
光琳畫
InscriptionsThree thousand feet of water flying headlong to the base
Almost as if the Milky Way had fallen from the skies.

Two lines from a poem by Li Bai.

飛流直下三千尺
疑是銀河落九天
ProvenanceBy 1892, Edward Sylvester Morse; 1892, sold by Edward Sylvester Morse to the MFA. (Accession Date: March 1, 1892)