Mino ware Shino style serving dish with design of crows on hut in field

Object Details

• Description

  Light gray clay. Four wide loop feet on base, with glazed bottoms. Underglaze iron painted decoration (appearing gray except where iron has bled through glaze and shows dark brown) of watchman's hut in millet field with two crows. Feldspathic glaze, thick and translucent gray-white; unglazed patch of irregular shape on base. Six spur marks evenly spaced around perimeter of base. Lacquer repairs in firing cracks.

• Provenance

  To 1970

  Yamanaka and Company, Ltd., Osaka, Japan. [1]

  From 1970

  Freer Gallery of Art, purchased from Yamanaka and Company, Ltd., Osaka, Japan. [2]

  Notes:

  [1] Curatorial Remark 1 in the object record.

  [2] See note 1.

• Collection

  Freer Gallery of Art Collection

• Exhibition History

  The Arts of Japan (July 14, 2012 to January 13, 2013)

  Seasons: Arts of Japan (February 5, 2011 to January 13, 2013)

  Japanese Ceramics from Seto and Mino (January 19, 1996 to August 5, 2001)

  The Glazed Ceramic Tradition of Mino and Seto Wares (April 26, 1985 to January 13, 1986)

  A Decade of Discovery: Selected Acquisitions 1970-1980 (November 9, 1979 to May 22, 1980)

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

  Japanese Art (July 1, 1974 to April 10, 1978)

• Previous custodian or owner

  Yamanaka and Co. 山中商会 (1917-1965)

• Origin

  Motoyashiki Higashi kilns, Toki city, Gifu prefecture, Japan

• Credit Line

  Purchase — Charles Lang Freer Endowment

• Type

  Vessel

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• Date

  1590s, 1600s

• Name

  Yamanaka and Co.

• Place

  Toki city, Japan, Gifu prefecture, Motoyashiki Higashi kilns

• Topic

  Art, Momoyama period (1573 - 1615), Stoneware, Crow, Japanese Art, Ceramics, Mino ware, Shino type

• Culture

  Japanese

• Object Type

  Vessels (containers)