Bowl, waster
Object Details
- Description
- Bowl, waster, plus small piece of the rim.
- Clay: porcelain.
- Glaze: clear with grey tint. Inside of the foot unglazed.
- Decoration: in cobalt pigment under the glaze.
- Mark: none. Inscription on base.
- Inscriptions
- "Nakashirakawa" inscribed in black grease paint by John A. Pope.
- Collection
- Freer Study Collection
- Credit Line
- Gift of Dr. John Alexander Pope
- Data Source
- Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
- Date
- 1640-1660
- Period
- Edo period
- Accession Number
- FSC-P-329
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Type
- Vessel
- Medium
- Porcelain with cobalt pigment under blue-grey glaze
- Dimensions
- H x W: 5.1 x 9.6 cm (2 x 3 3/4 in)
- Style
- Arita ware
- Origin
- Naka Shirakawa kiln site, Arita, Saga prefecture, Japan
- Related Online Resources
- Google Cultural Institute
- See more items in
- Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Collection
- Topic
- ceramic
- Arita ware
- Edo period (1615 - 1868)
- Japan
- porcelain
- Japanese Art
- Record ID
- fsg_FSC-P-329
