Dish with design of four spades

Object Details

• Description

  Deep dish with plain rim and low foot.

  Clay: coarse porcelain.

  Glaze: transparent, inside only.

  Decoration: Inside: overglaze enamel, four spade-like forms in yellow on green with blackish-brown diaper patterns. Outside: muddy yellow enamel washed over brownish cloud patterns directly on body.

  Repaired on one side.

• Marks

  Mark: Fuku in brown under foot.

• Provenance

  To 1966

  Harry C. Nail, Jr., El Dorado, Arkansas. [1]

  From 1966

  Freer Gallery of Art, purchased from Harry C. Nail, Jr., El Dorado, Arkansas. [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)

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

  Japanese Ukiyo-e Painting (May 2, 1973 to July 1, 1974)

  Japanese Art—Paintings, Pottery (August 18, 1967 to September 20, 1971)

• Previous custodian or owner

  Harry C. Nail Jr. (1909-1990)

• Origin

  Yambeta kiln group, Arita, Saga prefecture, Japan

• Credit Line

  Purchase — Charles Lang Freer Endowment

• Type

  Vessel

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• Name

  Nail, Harry C.

• Place

  Japan, Saga prefecture, Yambeta kiln group, Arita

• Topic

  Arita ware, Aode Kutani type, Cobalt pigment, Porcelain, Art, Edo period, Japan, (1600 - 1868), Japanese Art, Ceramics

• Culture

  Japanese

• Object Type

  Vessels (containers)