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II a pleasing balance between the nega- The exterior of this piece is decorated
Dish with iuy design tive and positive space. The play with with a large scrolling vine pattern in
space continues, as the ivy leaves are iron oxide and yellow enamel. The
c. 16505 carefully layered against one another. outside of the footring has a stylized
Hizen ware, aode Kokutani style One green leaf is even partly tucked lotus leaf pattern that appears again
Porcelain with polychrome behind the stem. The background later on certain Nabeshima footrings.
overglaze enamels consists of a stylized floral pattern in The interior of the footring is covered
Diameter 25.3 (10) yellow and iron oxide. On the interior with green enamel, and a large styl-
The Kyushu Ceramic Museum, Saga
rim a stylized water pattern is painted ized mark in iron oxide that indicates
in deep green and articulated with "happiness descending from heaven"
• This high-footed aode dish is similar
in decoration to the preceding bowl iron oxide. The rim itself is molded (roku) is placed in the center.
into the shape of twelve petals (the
(cat. 10). The central motif is a sprig of High-footed vessels with similar
ivy with two blue and three green standard number for later Ming blue- coloring have been excavated from
and-white dishes).
leaves. The knurled brown stem grace- the Yanbeta kiln number 4, making
fully covers the central area, creating it possible that this dish was fired
there. NCR