Octagonal dish with design of fish

Object Details

• Artist

  Horie (underglaze enamels)

• Description

  Clay: fine white porcelain.

  Glaze: transparent; very slightly mat.

  Decoration: two large fish in underglaze blue among waterweeds in overglaze enamels. (Enamels added 20th century)

• Provenance

  To ?

  Mr. Imaizumi Motosuke’s father. [1]

  To 1958

  Mayuyama & Co., Ltd., Tokyo, Japan. [2]

  From 1958

  Freer Gallery of Art, purchased from Mayuyama & Co., Ltd., Tokyo, Japan. [3]

  Notes:

  [1] Curatorial Remark 2 in the object record. Excerpt from the comment from September 1972: “This plate, with only the underglaze-cobalt decoration, had belonged to Mr. Imaizumi’s father. The overglaze enamels were added by Horie of Kaga City just after World War II.”

  [2] Curatorial Remark 1 in the object record.

  [3] See note 1.

• Collection

  Freer Gallery of Art Collection

• Exhibition History

  Bountiful Waters: Aquatic Life in Japanese Art (March 8 to September 14, 2014)

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

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

  Birds and Flowers of the Four Seasons in Japanese Art (September 14, 1977 to April 8, 1978)

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

  Japanese Art—Paintings, Pottery (August 18, 1967 to September 20, 1971)

  Japanese Art, Galleries 3, 4, and 5 (January 1, 1963 to September 16, 1970)

  Ukiyo-e Exhibition (August 7, 1961 to January 1, 1963)

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

• Previous custodian or owner

  Mayuyama & Co., Ltd. (established 1916)

• Origin

  Arita, Saga prefecture, Japan

• Credit Line

  Purchase — Charles Lang Freer Endowment

• Type

  Vessel

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• Name

  Mayuyama & Co., Ltd.

• Place

  Japan, Saga prefecture, Arita

• Topic

  Porcelain, Art, Fishes, Edo period, Japan, (1600 - 1868), Japanese Art, Arita ware, Kakiemon type, Ceramics

• Culture

  Japanese

• Object Type

  Vessels (containers)