Individual serving dish with flat foliate rim

Object Details

• Description

  Buff clay. Trimmed foot rim. Incised decoration of donkey and rider on shore of lake in center, flowers and grasses in cavetto; combing on flat rim; hand-cut foliation on edge of rim. Copper-tinted green ash glaze of uneven flow; foot unglazed; three round spur marks inside foot rim.

• Label

  Imported Chinese plates with enamel glazes inspired such green-glazed plates with their painterly motifs of donkey and rider, irises, or pair of geese.

• Provenance

  To 1963

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

  From 1963

  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

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

  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)

  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 (January 1, 1963 to July 1, 1966)

• Previous custodian or owner

  Harry C. Nail Jr. (1909-1990)

• Origin

  Motoyashiki kiln, Toki city, Gifu prefecture, Japan

• Credit Line

  Purchase — Charles Lang Freer Endowment

• Type

  Vessel

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• Name

  Nail, Harry C.

• Place

  Motoyashiki kiln, Toki city, Japan, Gifu prefecture

• Topic

  Art, Momoyama period (1573 - 1615), Donkey, Stoneware, Edo period, Japan, (1600 - 1868), Japanese Art, Mino ware, Oribe type, Ceramics, Flowers

• Culture

  Japanese

• Object Type

  Vessels (containers)