Top of Ho-o Zara (Phoenix Ware dish/plate)

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Title:
Ho-o Zara (Phoenix Ware dish/plate)
Catalog Number:
AACC-2008-077
Source:
Asian American Comparative Collection
Description:
This Western-style dish is in the form of a saucer. The interior transferprint design of Ho-o birds, karakusa tendrils, and paulownia and chrysanthemum flowers identify it as what is known in the West as Phoenix Ware (Dower 1971:52, 68-69; Ross 2012:20,23; Walter 2012:125, 129). The rim of the plate features an adaption of the Chinese cloud and mountain motif (Oates 1984:18). Commonly misidentified as a Phoenix or a turkey in the West, the Ho-o, or houou, bird is a composite animal adapted from Chinese mythology that incorporates parts of several creatures such as the rooster, mandarin duck, peacock, crane, and pheasant. Both the paulownia flower and the Ho-o bird are symbols of the Empress (Walter 2012:125, 129). Ho-o designs became immensely popular exports on Western forms just prior to 1914 and remained so until the 1930s (Van Patten 1994:60).
Functional Category:
Mealtime Tableware
Material:
Jiki (porcelain)
Vessel Form:
Sara (indeterminate dish/plate)
Artifact Dimensions:
Rim= 14 cm; footring= 8 cm; height= 2 cm
Pigment Application:
Shita-Etsuke (underglaze)
Decoration Type:
Sometsuke Doban (transferprint cobalt)
Interior Decoration Method:
Doban or Doban Tensha (transferprinted)
Interior Decoration Color:
Cobalt blue
Interior Decoration Elements:
Ho-o Bird; Karakusa (tendrils); Kiri (paulownia); Kiku (chrysanthemum); Kumo to Yama (cloud and Mountain)
Marks:
'MADE IN JAPAN' on base
Manufacture Origin:
Japan
Manufacture Date Range:
Most popular in the Taisho (1912-1926) and very early Showa (1926-1989) eras
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Preferred Image Citation:
Photo courtesy of the Asian American Comparative Collection, University of Idaho, catalog no. AACC-2008-077.
Metadata Created By:
Renae Campbell (2018)
Reference Link:
https://www.lib.uidaho.edu/digital/hjccc/data/hjccc-137.html
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Rights:
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