Octagonal dish on high round foot, Kutani ware, Revival Kutani type

Object Details

• Description

  Octagonal dish on a high round foot.

  Clay: coarse, off-white porcelain.

  Glaze: thick, transparent, slightly matte surface.

  Decoration: an underglaze blue circle inside, and one around foot; overglaze enamel painting of pheasants on a peony tree, conventional borders inside and out.

  Underglaze blue mark: Fuku 福 in a double square, roughly executed.

• Marks

  Underglaze blue mark: Fuku 福 in a double square, roughly executed.

• Provenance

  To 1957

  Oriental Art Gallery, New York. [1]

  From 1957

  Freer Gallery of Art, purchased from Oriental Art Gallery, New York. [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 (June 22, 1982 to September 27, 1982)

• Previous custodian or owner

  Oriental Art Gallery (New York)

• Origin

  Ishikawa prefecture, Japan

• Credit Line

  Purchase — Charles Lang Freer Endowment

• Type

  Vessel

• Restrictions and Rights

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• Related Resources

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• Date

  1880s, 1860s

• Name

  Seo, Joseph U.

• Place

  Japan, Ishikawa prefecture

• Topic

  Trees, Porcelain, Art, Peony, Pheasant, Kutani ware, Revival Kutani style, Japanese Art, Ceramics, Meiji era (1868 - 1912)

• Culture

  Japanese

• Object Type

  Vessels (containers)