Kutani style dish, Arita ware

Object Details

• Description

  Clay: white porcelain

  Glaze: milky white, thick, uneven

  Decoration: overglaze enamels; "tortoise shell" on rim with each scale framing an auspicious object; bird in landscape in octagonal frame in center; floral scrolls outside.

  Mark: in center of base, square, black pigment under green enamel, not read.

• Previous custodian or owner

  Mayuyama & Co., Ltd.

• Provenance

  To 1967

  Mayuyama & Co., Ltd.., Tokyo, Japan. [1]

  From 1967

  Freer Gallery of Art, purchased from Mayuyama & Co., Ltd., Tokyo, Japan. [2]

  Notes:

  [1] Curatorial Remark 1 in the object record.

  [2] See note 1.

• Origin

  Yambeta kiln group, Arita, Saga prefecture, Japan

• Credit Line

  Purchase — Charles Lang Freer Endowment

• Type

  Vessel

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• Name

  Mayuyama & Co., Ltd.

• Place

  Japan, Saga prefecture, Yambeta kiln group, Arita

• Topic

  Landscapes, Porcelain, Art, Animals, Edo period, Japan, (1600 - 1868), Japanese Art, Birds, Arita ware, Kutani type, Flowers

• Culture

  Japanese

• Object Type

  Vessels (containers)