Square Dish with Peach Blossom Branch Design

  • Edo period
Square Dish with Peach Blossom Branch Design

Square Dish with Peach Blossom Branch Design
A line traces the square where the inner surface of the dish meets the standing rim of this plate, which has a painting of peach blossoms on a small branch. A Chinese poem is inscribed on the upper right of the picture plane and the "Shoko" and "Toin" square relief seals are applied. A simplified auspicious cloud motif has been applied to the inner side of the standing rim and a floral motif to its outer side. Among the materials related to Kenzan ware excavated from the southeast corner of the Kyoto University Hospital grounds were finished works of low-fired glazed pottery similar to this dish in design. That fact enables us to position square dishes with this type of design in underglaze iron as products fired at Kenzan's Shogoin kiln, when Ihachi was playing a central role, and thus later than the group of square dishes that Korin painted.