Octagonal bowl

Object Details

• Description

  Clay: white porcelain

  Glaze: transparent

  Decoration: flowers, tree trunks, rocks, and scrolling vines in underglaze blue and overglaze enamel colors; brown rim; single circle in underglaze blue on base.

• 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

  Cornucopia: Ceramics of Southern Japan (December 19, 2009 to January 9, 2011)

  Summer Whites: Japanese Porcelain (July 1, 1983 to March 15, 1984)

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

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

  Japanese Ceramics/Puppets (June 16, 1980 to July 14, 1980)

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

  Bicentennial Exhibition: Japanese Art (December 15, 1975 to November 10, 1976)

  Japanese Art, Galleries 3, 4, and 5 (January 1, 1963 to September 16, 1970)

• Previous custodian or owner

  Harry C. Nail Jr. (1909-1990)

• Origin

  Kakiemon kiln, Nangawara, 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

  Kakiemon kiln, Nangawara, Japan, Saga prefecture, Arita

• Topic

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

• Culture

  Japanese

• Object Type

  Vessels (containers)