Maker: Yabu Meizan (1853–1934)
Date: Meiji era, ca. 1904
Collection: Walters Art Museum 49.2280

White stoneware with overglaze enamels and gold. The Walters records hundreds of women engaged in traditional arts, crafts and cultural practices on the exterior of a six-lobed foliate bowl, panels with about twenty identifiable species of flowers at the base, and a band of wisteria inside the rim. It notes that Meizan’s studio bought fired bisque from the Chin Jukan kiln in Kagoshima and the Kinkōzan kiln in Kyoto and transferred designs from studio pattern books.

Louisiana Purchase Exposition, St Louis, 1904; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1904, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest (per the Walters). Exhibited: Master Potters of Japan, The Walters Art Gallery, 1984; JapanAmerica: Points of Contact, 1876–1970, Ithaca and Sacramento, 2016–17.

Not recorded in the published sources.

Sources: Walters Art Museum, 49.2280 ↗ · Wikimedia Commons file (public domain) ↗