Ovoid jar with women with a yoke in scalloped panels

Ovoid jar with women with a yoke in scalloped panels

anonymous

Details

Dimensions
height 8.3 cm x diameter 13.8 cm
Origin
Kutani
Holding institution
Rijksmuseum
Image provider
rijksmuseum
License
Public Domain
Credit
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Art Genome Taxonomy

10 tags

Subject Matter

  • Human Figure Both · 98%

    The title identifies women with a yoke, and the visible central panel shows a standing female figure holding a horizontal yoke-like bar.

  • Flora Visual · 95%

    Flowering plants, leafy sprays, and scrolling botanical forms surround the figure and recur across the visible panels.

Visual Qualities

  • Patterns Visual · 97%

    Repeated lattice, interlace, border, and ornamental motifs organize the jar into patterned decorative zones.

  • Highly Ornamented Visual · 97%

    Most of the visible porcelain surface is covered by multicolored floral, figural, and geometric enamel decoration.

  • Geometric Visual · 94%

    The decoration includes angular lattice bands, repeated geometric borders, and interlocking linear motifs around the shoulder, neck, and base.

Medium and Techniques

  • Glass and Ceramics Metadata · 97%

    The catalog identifies porcelain with enamel colors, corresponding to ceramic technique and material.

Time Periods

  • 17th Century Art Metadata · 99%

    The Rijksmuseum dates the object to c. 1650–c. 1699, placing it in the seventeenth century.

Geographic Regions

  • Japanese Art Metadata · 92%

    The catalog gives Kutani as the place of origin; Kutani is a Japanese ceramic-production tradition.

Materials

  • Porcelain Metadata · 99%

    The catalog medium is recorded as porcelain with enamel colors.

Tableware, Vessels, and Objects

  • Vessel Both · 99%

    The catalog classifies the object as a pot and titles it an ovoid jar; the image clearly shows a lidded container.

Source & rights

anonymous. Ovoid jar with women with a yoke in scalloped panels. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.