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Plate

Artist: Kitaoji Rosanjin, Japanese, 1883-1959
Medium: Stoneware with overglaze enamel
Place Made: Japan
Dates: ca. 1950
Period: Showa Period
Collections: Asian Art
Museum Location: This item is on view in Asian Galleries, The Arts of Japan, 2nd Floor
Accession Number: 77.136
Credit Line: Gift of Dr. Hugo Munsterberg
Image: Overall, 77.136_bw.jpg. Brooklyn Museum photograph

Catalogue Description: Kutani-style plate Round dish of buff stoneware with slightly recessed bottom and everted lip. Except for footrim, 2/3 covered with a brown glaze, remaining 1/3 with a bluish clear glaze on which (obverse) is a red and green enamel checkerboard pattern with wavy black lines down the green stripes and (reverse) abstract red linear decoration and red signature, the katakana "RO". Condition: Minute chip our of footrim.

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