Bowl

Japan

  • Titles Bowl (Descriptive)
  • Artist Japan
  • Medium Kyotoware
  • Dimensions Overall: 2 1/2 x 4 11/16 in. (6.4 x 11.9 cm)
  • Credit Line Gift of Robert Sistrunk of Antaeus Gallery, N.Y., N.Y., 1979.290
  • Work Type bowl
  • Classification Containers

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With stand
Stoneware dish with a flat bottom, flared wall and squared foot, the pinkish bisque painted with a blue-gray underglaze cobalt design of blossoms and a large central whorled-petal flowerhead
circular mutton fat jade with brown inclusions, each squared side has four layers
This group (1988.18.1-.4) includes four leaves from same text, probably the Kalpasutra. Each leaf has text on left, depictions of Jain figures on right.