Serving dish in shape of overlapping fans, Mino ware, Oribe type

Object Details

• Description

  Buff clay. Four small loop feet. Underglaze iron painted decoration of geometric bands and scattered plum blossoms on inside, stripes and cartwheels-in-stream on outside. Clear glaze, white and crackled where thick, and copper-tinted green ash glaze, applied separately; base unglazed except at edges, where green glaze is wiped off.

• Provenance

  To 1960

  Mathias Komor, New York. [1]

  From 1960

  Freer Gallery of Art, purchased from Mathias Komor, New York. [2]

  Notes:

  [1] Curatorial Remark 1 in the object record.

  [2] See note 1.

• Collection

  Freer Gallery of Art Collection

• Exhibition History

  Oribe Ware: Color and Pattern in Japanese Ceramics (December 13, 2014 to June 14, 2015)

  Japanese Fans (April 6, 1984 to October 18, 1984)

  Japanese Ceramics from Past to Present (February 18, 1983 to February 16, 1984)

  Fans (May 18, 1980 to October 13, 1981)

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

  Japanese Art--Shinto (October 12, 1976 to December 10, 1976)

  Japanese Art: Paintings and Pottery (July 1, 1966 to May 2, 1973)

  Japanese Art (January 1, 1963 to July 1, 1966)

• Previous custodian or owner

  Mathias Komor (1909-1984)

• Origin

  Gifu prefecture, Japan

• Credit Line

  Purchase — Charles Lang Freer Endowment

• Type

  Vessel

• Restrictions and Rights

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• Name

  Komor, Mathias

• Place

  Japan, Gifu prefecture

• Topic

  Fans, Art, Momoyama period (1573 - 1615), Stoneware, Edo period, Japan, (1600 - 1868), Japanese Art, Mino ware, Oribe type, Ceramics, Copper-green glaze, Bamboo

• Culture

  Japanese

• Object Type

  Vessels (containers)