- Provenance
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To 1963
Harry C. Nail, Jr., Palo Alto, California. [1]From 1963
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.
- Previous Owner(s) and Custodian(s)
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Harry C. Nail Jr.
- Description
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Seven-sun plate. Dish on high foot. Footrim repaired.
Clay: fine white porcelain.
Glaze: transparent.
Decoration: in underglaze blue and overglaze enamel colors; outside, flowers on cavetto and typical "comb pattern" on foot; inside, auspicious objects and "kotobuki" reserved in white.
- Label
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Auspicious symbols have been assembled eclectically from various groups of "eights" (The Eight Buddhist Emblems, the Eight Taoist Emblems, the Eight Precious Things and the Eight Musical Instruments), all of which were popular for decorative use in China as well as in Japan. Eight "sacred jewels" ring the character kotobuki ("congratulations") rendered in reserve in white against the under-glaze-cobalt ground. The items depicted around the rim include the hat and the cape of invisibility in the upper left, scrolls and books suggesting wisdom, bulging moneybags shown not just once but twice, and attributes carried by various of the Eight Taoist Immortals.
- Collection Area(s)
- Japanese Art
- Web Resources
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