Dish

Dish, shallow, circular, with sides and rim festooned to eight points.
Clay: hard, resonant. Porcelain.
Glaze: exterior and inner rim in black and green; bottom in yellow and brown, with decoration in blue, aubergine-purple, brown, black, and green enamel glazes. Copper pigment on rim.
Decoration: egrets and reeds in rich colored glazes (as above).
Seal: Fuku, written in black under green enamel on base.

Historical period(s)
Edo period, 1650-1660
Medium
Porcelain with cobalt pigment under enamel glazes, copper pigment on rim
Style
Arita ware, Aode Kutani type
Dimensions
H x W: 4.5 x 26 cm (1 3/4 x 10 1/4 in)
Geography
Japan, Saga prefecture, Arita, Yambeta kiln group
Credit Line
Gift of Charles Lang Freer
Collection
Freer Gallery of Art
Accession Number
F1901.79
On View Location
Currently not on view
Classification(s)
Ceramic, Vessel
Type

Dish

Keywords
Arita ware, Aode Kutani type, cobalt pigment, Edo period (1615 - 1868), Japan, porcelain
Provenance

To 1901
Siegfried Bing (1838-1905), Paris, to 1901 [1]

From 1901 to 1919
Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Siegfried Bing in 1901 [2]

From 1920
Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [3]

Notes:

[1] See Original Pottery List, L. 958, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives.

[2] See note 1.

[3] The original deed of Charles Lang Freer's gift was signed in 1906. The collection was received in 1920 upon the completion of the Freer Gallery.

Previous Owner(s) and Custodian(s)

Siegfried Bing (C.L. Freer source) 1838-1905
Charles Lang Freer 1854-1919

Description

Dish, shallow, circular, with sides and rim festooned to eight points.
Clay: hard, resonant. Porcelain.
Glaze: exterior and inner rim in black and green; bottom in yellow and brown, with decoration in blue, aubergine-purple, brown, black, and green enamel glazes. Copper pigment on rim.
Decoration: egrets and reeds in rich colored glazes (as above).
Seal: Fuku, written in black under green enamel on base.

Marking(s)

Seal: Fuku, written in black under green enamel on base.

Published References
  • Warren E. Cox. The Book of Pottery and Porcelain. 2 vols., New York. vol. 1: p. 258, fig. 443.
Collection Area(s)
Japanese Art
Web Resources
Google Cultural Institute
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