Song Dynasty Three-Color Glazed Plate with Rabbit Design (So sansai tomonzara)
- Date:
- 1944
- Medium:
- Hand-colored woodblock print
- Edition:
- Self-printed
- Source:
- Art Institute of Chicago
$500–$8,000. Common later works: $500–$1,500. Key value factors: His enormous output (lived to 102) means most works are accessible. Early black-and-white prints are most valued.
A Song dynasty three-color glazed plate bearing a rabbit design — the tri-color sancai pottery of medieval China — is transcribed into hand-colored woodblock with careful attention to the plate's decorative program. The rabbit motif, the plate's circular format, and the glazed colors are all rendered through Hiratsuka's patient color printing. The 1944 work belongs to his wartime series documenting Asian ceramics and antiquities.
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Song Dynasty Three-Color Glazed Plate with Rabbit Design (So sansai tomonzara) was created by Hiratsuka Un'ichi (平塚運一) in 1944.
Song Dynasty Three-Color Glazed Plate with Rabbit Design (So sansai tomonzara) depicts animals.
