Artworks

Tea bowl with plum-branch design

Artwork · Ogata Kenzan · 18th century · tea bowl · Umezawa Memorial Museum

A restrained work of Ogata Kenzan: a spray of plum blossoms painted under the glaze in rust brown and cream, the petals so impressionistically rendered that the design seems almost pure abstraction. 1 Mason 2005, p. 299, fig. 343. ↩ Literatur Mason 2005: Penelope E. Mason, History of Japanese Art, 2nd, Pearson Education LTD. 2005.