Dish

Description

Large circular dish of porcelain, decorated in underglaze blue with the Three Laughers of Tiger Valley, Hirado Mikawachi ware: Japan, Hizen province, Mikawachi, by Toyoshima Masaji for Deyasu Co. (de Ath & Co) of Kobe, 1882-1900

Museum reference

V.2015.10.28

Collection

World Culture

Object name

Dish

Production information

Toyoshima Masaji, 1851 - 1919
Mikawachi, Sasebo-shi, Nagasaki-ken, Japan, East Asia
Deyasu Co.

Date

c. 1880 - 1900

Materials

Porcelain

Associations

Kobe-shi, Hyogo-ken, Japan, East Asia

References

For more information on Mikawachi works commissioned by Deyasu Shokai, see Matsushita Hisako, 'Deyasu Shokai chumon no Mikawachi-yaki ni tsuite - Meiji chuki no gijutsu to dezain', Nagasaki Rekishi Bunka Hakubutsukan kenkyu kiyo, no. 9 (2015) (copy in supplementary file).

Credit

Presented by David and Anne Hyatt King through the Art Fund