Dish

Object Details

• Description

  Dish: low with curved sides, slightly everted rim, low narrow foot, four spur scars in glaze of base.

  Clay: white porcelain of medium fine texture.

  Glaze: clear, feldspathic, slight aquamarine tint (especially noticeable in border), slight orange-skin surface texture. Edge of foot-rim unglazed.

  Decoration: painted in underglaze cobalt blue in outline and graded washes, and yellow, green and blue overglaze enamels and iron-red. Inside: center, peonies, rocks and one of a pair of phoenixes in underglaze blue, the other in colored enamels, the scene encircled by a double blue line. The border has a naturalistic treatment of bamboo, pine, prunus, chrysanthemums in colored enamels rising from a rocky ground line in underglaze blue. There is a double line at the lip. Outside: underglaze blue foliate scroll of typical Arita form, in four segments. There is a single and double blue line at the foot, a single blue line on base close to foot-rim.

  On base, a six-character mark in underglaze blue.

• Marks

  On base, a six-character mark in underglaze blue imitating (in faulty characters) the Chinese nien hao, or reign mark, Ta Ming Ch'eng-hua nien chih (made in the Ch'eng-hua reign of Great Ming dynasty).

• Collection

  Freer Gallery of Art Collection

• Exhibition History

  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)

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

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

  Harold P. Stern Memorial Exhibition (April 18, 1977 to September 13, 1977)

• Origin

  Arita, Saga prefecture, Japan

• Credit Line

  Purchase — funds provided by the bequest of Edith Ehrman

• Type

  Vessel

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• Place

  Japan, Saga prefecture, Arita

• Topic

  Pine tree, Cobalt pigment, Porcelain, Art, Edo period, Japan, (1600 - 1868), Japanese Art, Arita ware, Kakiemon type, Phoenix, Ceramics, Flowers, Reign mark

• Culture

  Japanese

• Object Type

  Vessels (containers)