Individual serving dish with fluted foliate rim

Object Details

• Description

  Light gray clay. Three flat loop feet, unglazed on bottoms. Central design in bottom of grasses painted in underglaze iron, with abstract motifs around cavetto and rim. White feldspathic glaze, appearing coral pink where thin. Four medium-sized spur marks (one probably accidental) in bottom.

• 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

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

  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 from Past to Present (February 18, 1983 to February 16, 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)

• Previous custodian or owner

  N.V. Hammer, Inc.

• Origin

  Gifu prefecture, Japan

• Credit Line

  Purchase — Charles Lang Freer Endowment

• Type

  Vessel

• Restrictions and Rights

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• Related Resources

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• Date

  1940s, 1950s

• Name

  N.V. Hammer, Inc.

• Place

  Japan, Gifu prefecture

• Topic

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

• Culture

  Japanese

• Object Type

  Vessels (containers)