Individual serving dish
Object Details
- Description
- Small dish with fluted rim.
- Clay: white porcelain.
- Glaze: chocolate brown, somewhat uneven texture, flecked with mustard and dark brown spots.
- Decoration: Maple leaf in reserve, with stem, outline and veins drawn in brown (probably cobalt) under thin clear glaze.
- Provenance
- To 1960
- Harry C. Nail, Jr., Palo Alto, California. [1]
- From 1960
- Freer Gallery of Art, purchased from Harry C. Nail, Jr., Palo Alto, California. [2]
- Notes:
- [1] Curatorial Remark 1 in the object record.
- [2] See note 1.
- Collection
- Freer Gallery of Art Collection
- Exhibition History
- Arts of Japan: Edo Aviary and Poetic License (February 2 to August 4, 2013)
- Poetic License: Making Old Worlds New (February 2 to August 4, 2013)
- Cornucopia: Ceramics of Southern Japan (December 19, 2009 to January 9, 2011)
- Dinner for Five: Japanese Serving Dishes for Elegant Meals (March 4 to October 21, 2001)
- Japanese Ceramics (April 11, 1978 to January 17, 1980)
- Previous custodian or owner
- Harry C. Nail Jr. (1909-1990)
- Credit Line
- Purchase — Charles Lang Freer Endowment
- Data Source
- Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
- Date
- 1650-1670
- Period
- Edo period
- Accession Number
- F1960.5
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Type
- Vessel
- Medium
- Porcelain with cobalt pigment under clear glaze, iron glaze
- Dimensions
- H x W: 3.3 x 15 cm (1 5/16 x 5 7/8 in)
- Style
- Arita ware
- Origin
- Arita, Saga prefecture, Japan
- Related Online Resources
- Google Cultural Institute
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- Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Collection
- Topic
- ceramic
- Arita ware
- Edo period (1615 - 1868)
- cobalt pigment
- Japan
- porcelain
- Japanese Art
- Record ID
- fsg_F1960.5
