Dish with designs of tiger and bamboo and blossoming plum

Object Details

• Description

  Chrysanthemum-shaped deep plate.

  Clay: fine white porcelain;

  Glaze: lustrous, mild-white;

  Decoration: vitrifiable enamels in tiger, floral and bamboo designs.

• Provenance

  To 1953

  Howard Hollis & Co., Cleveland, Ohio. [1]

  From 1953

  Freer Gallery of Art, purchased from Howard Hollis & Co., Cleveland, Ohio. [2]

  Notes:

  [1] Curatorial Remark 1 in the object record.

  [2] See note 1.

• Collection

  Freer Gallery of Art Collection

• Exhibition History

  Summer Whites: Japanese Porcelain (July 1, 1983 to March 15, 1984)

  Japanese Ceramics (April 11, 1978 to January 17, 1980)

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

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

  Centennial Exhibition, Galleries 3 and 4 (February 25, 1956 to January 1, 1963)

  Untitled Exhibition, Japanese Art, 1955 (October 25, 1955 to November 22, 1955)

  Untitled Exhibition, Japanese Art (October 3, 1947 to February 25, 1956)

• Previous custodian or owner

  Howard Hollis and Company (established 1949)

• Origin

  Arita, Saga prefecture, Japan

• Credit Line

  Purchase — Charles Lang Freer Endowment

• Type

  Vessel

• Restrictions and Rights

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• Date

  1940s, 1860s

• Name

  Howard Hollis and Company

• Place

  Japan, Saga prefecture, Arita

• Topic

  Porcelain, Art, Japanese Art, Arita ware, Kakiemon type, Ceramics, Flowers, Meiji era (1868 - 1912), Bamboo, Tiger, Plum blossom

• Culture

  Japanese

• Object Type

  Vessels (containers)