Individual serving dish

Object Details

• Description

  Small dish with fluted rim.

  Clay: white porcelain.

  Glaze: chocolate brown, somewhat uneven texture, flecked with mustard and dark brown spots.

  Decoration: Maple leaf in reserve, with stem, outline and veins drawn in brown (probably cobalt) under thin clear glaze.

• Provenance

  To 1960

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

  From 1960

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

  Notes:

  [1] Curatorial Remark 1 in the object record.

  [2] See note 1.

• Collection

  Freer Gallery of Art Collection

• Exhibition History

  Arts of Japan: Edo Aviary and Poetic License (February 2 to August 4, 2013)

  Poetic License: Making Old Worlds New (February 2 to August 4, 2013)

  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)

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

• Previous custodian or owner

  Harry C. Nail Jr. (1909-1990)

• Origin

  Arita, Saga prefecture, Japan

• Credit Line

  Purchase — Charles Lang Freer Endowment

• Type

  Vessel

• Restrictions and Rights

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• Name

  Nail, Harry C.

• Place

  Japan, Saga prefecture, Arita

• Topic

  Cobalt pigment, Porcelain, Art, Arita ware, Edo period, Japan, (1600 - 1868), Japanese Art, Ceramics

• Culture

  Japanese

• Object Type

  Vessels (containers)