Dish with design of bird and chrysanthemums

Object Details

• Description

  Large shallow dish with plain rim, flat brown lip.

  Clay: coarse whitish porcelain, fired brownish.

  Glaze: mustard yellow, green, aubergine, lavender.

  Decoration: chrysanthemums and bird on yellow ground, lavender foreground. Brown scrolls outside.

  Mark: in brown in sloppily glazed base: Fuku.

• Marks

  Fuku, in brown in sloppily glazed base

• Provenance

  To 1967

  N.V. Hammer, Inc., New York. [1]

  From 1967

  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

  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 (April 11, 1978 to January 17, 1980)

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

• Previous custodian or owner

  N.V. Hammer, Inc.

• Origin

  Yambeta kiln group, Arita, Saga prefecture, Japan

• Credit Line

  Purchase — Charles Lang Freer Endowment

• Type

  Vessel

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• Name

  N.V. Hammer, Inc.

• Place

  Japan, Saga prefecture, Yambeta kiln group, Arita

• Topic

  Arita ware, Aode Kutani type, Porcelain, Art, Animals, Chrysanthemum, Edo period, Japan, (1600 - 1868), Japanese Art, Birds, Ceramics

• Culture

  Japanese

• Object Type

  Vessels (containers)