Mino ware Shino style dish with design of reeds

Object Details

• Description

  Buff clay. Recessed base. Underglaze iron painted decoration of reeds and water. Thin white feldspathic glaze covering overall coating of iron slip. Base partially glazed. Some modern repairs to losses around rim.

• Label

  On this plain, flat dish, a uniformly thin application of Shino glaze over a coating of iron-bearing slip produced the variant of Gray Shino known as Red Shino. On most Red Shino vessels the design was scratched through the slip to the white clay body, as for Gray Shino, and therefore appeared white. On this unusual piece the graceful reeds are painted in a dense iron pigment, which appear brown against the coral pink ground of thinner iron pigment as seen through the translucent Shino glaze.

• Provenance

  To 1962

  N.V. Hammer, Inc., New York. [1]

  From 1962

  Freer Gallery of Art, purchased from N.V. Hammer, Inc., New York. [2]

  Notes:

  [1] Curatorial Remark 1 in the object record.

  [2] See note 1.

• Collection

  Freer Gallery of Art Collection

• Exhibition History

  Landscapes in Japanese Art (February 2 to July 15, 2007)

  Japanese Ceramics from Seto and Mino (January 19, 1996 to August 5, 2001)

  Japanese Art (November 7, 1986 to July 19, 1988)

  The Glazed Ceramic Tradition of Mino and Seto Wares (April 26, 1985 to January 13, 1986)

  Autumn Colors (October 19 to December 20, 1984)

  Japanese Ceramics (June 22, 1982 to September 27, 1982)

  Japanese Ceramics (July 15, 1980 to June 21, 1982)

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

  Japanese Art (July 1, 1974 to April 10, 1978)

  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

  N.V. Hammer, Inc.

• Origin

  Ogaya kiln group, Kani city, Gifu prefecture, Japan

• Credit Line

  Purchase — Charles Lang Freer Endowment

• Type

  Vessel

• Restrictions and Rights

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• Date

  1590s, 1600s

• Name

  N.V. Hammer, Inc.

• Place

  Kani city, Japan, Gifu prefecture, Ogaya kiln group

• Topic

  Art, Momoyama period (1573 - 1615), Stoneware, Japanese Art, Ceramics, Plants, Mino ware, Shino type

• Culture

  Japanese

• Object Type

  Vessels (containers)