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Square dish with design of a courtier gazing at a waterfall

Square dish with design of a courtier gazing at a waterfall

(Japanese, 1663–1743)
(Japanese, 1658–1716)
1710
Country of Origin, for CustomsJapan
Medium/TechniqueKyoto ware; stoneware with underglaze iron
DimensionsOverall: 2.9 x 21.8 x 21.8cm (1 1/8 x 8 9/16 x 8 9/16in.)
Credit LineMorse Collection. Museum purchase with funds donated by contribution
Accession number92.6736
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ClassificationsCeramics
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InscriptionsThree thousand feet of water flying headlong to the base Almost as if the Milky Way had fallen from the skies. Two lines from a poem by Li Bai. 飛流直下三千尺 疑是銀河落九天
ProvenanceBy 1892, Edward Sylvester Morse; 1892, sold by Edward Sylvester Morse to the MFA. (Accession Date: March 1, 1892)