Serving dish in shape of overlapping fans, Mino ware, Oribe type
Object Details
- Description
- Buff clay. Four small loop feet. Underglaze iron painted decoration of geometric bands and scattered plum blossoms on inside, stripes and cartwheels-in-stream on outside. Clear glaze, white and crackled where thick, and copper-tinted green ash glaze, applied separately; base unglazed except at edges, where green glaze is wiped off.
- Label
- As the formal cuisine (kaiseki) evolved during the Momoyama period, specific sorts of dishes were designed for serving the successive courses. The most colorful of all Momoyama ceramics, Oribe wear, was especially favored for table use. This plate combines complex allusions to natural (the bamboo-shaped handle) and artificial (the silhouette of two overlapping fans) forms. The design is partially calculated (in the painted patterns) and partially spontaneous (in the flowing copper glaze).
- Provenance
- To 1960
- Mathias Komor, New York. [1]
- From 1960
- Freer Gallery of Art, purchased from Mathias Komor, New York. [2]
- Notes:
- [1] Curatorial Remark 1 in the object record.
- [2] See note 1.
- Collection
- Freer Gallery of Art Collection
- Exhibition History
- Oribe Ware: Color and Pattern in Japanese Ceramics (December 13, 2014 to June 14, 2015)
- Japanese Fans (April 6, 1984 to October 18, 1984)
- Japanese Ceramics from Past to Present (February 18, 1983 to February 16, 1984)
- Fans (May 18, 1980 to October 13, 1981)
- Japanese Ceramics (April 11, 1978 to January 17, 1980)
- Japanese Art--Shinto (October 12, 1976 to December 10, 1976)
- Japanese Art: Paintings and Pottery (July 1, 1966 to May 2, 1973)
- Japanese Art (January 1, 1963 to July 1, 1966)
- Previous custodian or owner
- Mathias Komor (1909-1984)
- Credit Line
- Purchase — Charles Lang Freer Endowment
- Data Source
- Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
- Date
- 1615-1630
- Period
- Edo period
- Accession Number
- F1960.30
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Type
- Vessel
- Medium
- Stoneware with iron decoration under feldspathic glaze, and copper-green glaze
- Dimensions
- H x W x D: 14.3 x 28.2 x 28.2 cm (5 5/8 x 11 1/8 x 11 1/8 in)
- Style
- Mino ware, Oribe type
- Origin
- Gifu prefecture, Japan
- Related Online Resources
- Google Cultural Institute
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- Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Collection
- Topic
- ceramic
- Mino ware, Oribe type
- Momoyama period (1573 - 1615)
- Edo period (1615 - 1868)
- bamboo
- fan
- Japan
- stoneware
- copper-green glaze
- Japanese Art
- Record ID
- fsg_F1960.30
