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| Keywords: Yabu Meizan - Bowl with a Multitude of Women - Walters 492280.jpg This bowl was decorated by Yabu Meizan at his studio in Osaka The exterior is decorated with an intricate pattern of hundreds of women engaged in traditional arts crafts and cultural practices They are depicted in multicolored enamels that have been fired onto the bisque surface of this six-lobed foliate bowl At the base panels of flowrs ring the bowl The panels contain approximately twenty identifiable species of flowers including peonies haydrangea wisteria morning glories three types of camelias lilies etc The interior features a band of wisteria ringing the rim with blossoms hanging down into the bowl's interior Yabu Meizan's studio would purchase fired bisque stonewares from the Chinjyukan kiln in Kagoshima and from the Kinkozan kiln in Kyoto They would then transfer designs to the stoneware surfaces from pattern books held in the studio ca 1904 Meiji white stoneware with overglaze enamels and gold cm 19 accession number 49 2280 7838 Louisana Purchase Exposition St Louis 1904 Henry Walters city Baltimore Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by Henry Walters 1904 Master Potters of Japan The Walters Art Gallery Baltimore 1984 place of origin Osaka Japan PD-old-auto 1934 Meiji ceramics in the Walters Art Museum Yabu Meizan Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs category review Kinkozan ware | ||||
