Dish with molded decoration and Chinese poem

Object Details

• Description

  Dish with fluted rim; five spur marks on base.

  Clay: white porcelain.

  Glaze: transparent, slightly bluish.

  Decoration: a Chinese scene of two figures in a garden by a house, in moulded relief under the glaze. Inscriptions, rim decoration, and fuku mark on base in underglaze blue.

• Inscriptions

  1. [Folder sheet entry #2] (LACort, 1983). The four-line poem inscribed on the plate was indentified by Fu Shen as being "Spring Dawn" by the T'ang dynasty poet Meng Hao-jan (689-740):

  {Spring Dawn} [Chn]

  Sleeping in spring, unaware of the dawn [Chn]

  Then everywhere I hear birds singing. [Chn]

  Last night, the sound of wind and the rain -- [Chn]

  Flowers have fallen, I wonder how many. [Chn]

• 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

  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)

• Previous custodian or owner

  N.V. Hammer, Inc.

• Origin

  Nangawara, Higuchi or Kamanotsuji kiln, Arita, Saga prefecture, Japan

• Credit Line

  Purchase — Charles Lang Freer Endowment

• Type

  Vessel

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• Name

  N.V. Hammer, Inc.

• Place

  Kamanotsuji kiln, Nangawara, Japan, Saga prefecture, Higuchi, Arita

• Topic

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

• Culture

  Japanese

• Object Type

  Vessels (containers)