Serving dish with design of pine seedling, Seto ware, Ofuke type

Object Details

• Description

  Buff clay, darkened on surface by use. Decoration of pine seedling incised and painted in blue-gray underglaze cobalt. Line of cobalt painted over incised line on curved sections of rim. Clear glaze, yellow in tone, closely crackled and stained; areas of violet blue opalescence where thick. Foot unglazed. Wear in bottom.

• Provenance

  To 1906

  Spier Collection, to 1906 [1]

  From 1906 to 1919

  Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), puchased from the Spier Collection in 1906 [2]

  From 1920

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

  Notes:

  [1] See Original Pottery List, L. 219, 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

  The Glazed Ceramic Tradition of Mino and Seto Wares (April 26, 1985 to January 13, 1986)

• Previous custodian or owner

  Julius Spier (1848-1923) (C.L. Freer source)

  Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)

• Origin

  Seto, Aichi prefecture, Japan

• Credit Line

  Gift of Charles Lang Freer

• Type

  Vessel

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• Name

  Freer, Charles Lang, Spier, Julius

• Place

  Aichi prefecture, Japan, Seto

• Topic

  Pine tree, Charles Lang Freer collection, Cobalt pigment, Art, Stoneware, Edo period, Japan, (1600 - 1868), Japanese Art, Ceramics, Seto ware, Ofuke type

• Culture

  Japanese

• Object Type

  Vessels (containers)