Nabeshima ware dish in five-sun size

Object Details

• Description

  Shallow dish with high thin foot ring.

  Clay: fine white porcelain.

  Glaze: transparent.

  Decoration: In underglaze blue outside and in, the latter combined with overglaze enamels. Comb pattern on footrim, floral vinescroll on underside of rim.

• Provenance

  To 1959

  Harry C. Nail, Jr., Palo Alto, California. [1]

  From 1959

  Freer Gallery of Art, purchased from Harry C. Nail, Jr., Palo Alto, California. [2]

  Notes:

  [1] Curatorial Remark 1 in the object record. Also refer to Curatorial Remark 2.

  [2] See note 1.

• Collection

  Freer Gallery of Art Collection

• Exhibition History

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

  Dinner for Five: Japanese Serving Dishes for Elegant Meals (March 4 to October 21, 2001)

  Garden Potteries and Official Kilns: Clan-Sponsored Ceramics in the Edo Period (January 16, 1986 to November 3, 1986)

  Varieties of 17th-Century Arita Porcelain (November 7, 1986 to July 19, 1988)

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

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

  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)

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

• Previous custodian or owner

  Harry C. Nail Jr. (1909-1990)

• Origin

  Okawachi kiln, Imari, Saga prefecture, Japan

• Credit Line

  Purchase — Charles Lang Freer Endowment

• Type

  Vessel

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• Name

  Nail, Harry C.

• Place

  Imari, Japan, Saga prefecture, Okawachi kiln

• Topic

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

• Culture

  Japanese

• Object Type

  Vessels (containers)