Dish

Object Details

• 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.

• Marks

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

• 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.

• Collection

  Freer Gallery of Art Collection

• Exhibition History

  Arts of Japan: Edo Aviary and Poetic License (February 2 to August 4, 2013)

  Cornucopia: Ceramics of Southern Japan (December 19, 2009 to January 9, 2011)

  Japanese Ceramics from Past to Present (February 18, 1983 to February 16, 1984)

  Japanese Ukiyo-e Painting (May 2, 1973 to July 1, 1974)

  Hokusai Bicentennial Exhibition (March 30, 1960 to August 16, 1961)

• Previous custodian or owner

  Siegfried Bing (1838-1905) (C.L. Freer source)

  Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)

• Origin

  Yambeta kiln group, Arita, Saga prefecture, Japan

• Credit Line

  Gift of Charles Lang Freer

• Type

  Vessel

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• Name

  Bing, Siegfried, Freer, Charles Lang

• Place

  Japan, Saga prefecture, Yambeta kiln group, Arita

• Topic

  Arita ware, Aode Kutani type, Charles Lang Freer collection, Cobalt pigment, Porcelain, Art, Edo period, Japan, (1600 - 1868), Japanese Art, Ceramics

• Culture

  Japanese

• Object Type

  Vessels (containers)