Deep Dish with Design of Deer and Mount Fuji

Gallery 342, Asian Art, third floor

Main Building

Deep Dish with Design of Deer and Mount Fuji

c. 1875

Artist/maker unknown, Japanese

The image on this dish depicting Mount Fuji in early autumn was made by using the sotoguma technique in which the mountain itself is not outlined but is rendered by coloring the sky surrounding it.

Gallery 342, Asian Art, third floor

Object Details

Title:

Deep Dish with Design of Deer and Mount Fuji

Date:

c. 1875

Artist:

Artist/maker unknown, Japanese

Medium:

Glazed porcelain with underglaze and overglaze enamel decoration (Nabeshima ware)

Dimensions:

2 11/16 x 8 1/8 inches (6.8 x 20.7 cm)

Classification:

Containers

Credit Line:

Gift of Mrs. David Townsend in memory of her husband, 1919

Accession Number:

1919-270

Geography:

Made in Japan, Asia

Context:

Period: Meiji Period (1868-1912) Reign: Meiji Emperor (1868-1912)

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Gallery 342, Asian Art, third floor

Main Building

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