Dish with unfinished enamel decoration

Object Details

• Description

  Dish, large, plate shape, unfinished. Four spur marks on base. Chip underside of rim.

  Clay: white porcelain.

  Glaze: clear porcelain glaze, some minute pitting due to surface breaking of bubbles. Some wear abrasions. Foot-rim unglazed.

  Decoration: painted in underglaze cobalt blue in unfinished "Chelsea pattern" of bird, trees, rocks and plants. The intended overglaze enamels had not yet been applied to the blank design areas. Outside: insects and plants on rocks, two units. Ring on base, approximately 1.75 cm. from foot.

• Provenance

  To 1977

  Private collection, McLean, Virginia. [1]

  From 1977

  Freer Gallery of Art, gift of a private collector, McLean, Virginia. [2]

  Notes:

  [1] Freer Gallery of Art Purchase List after 1920 file, Collections Management Office.

  [2] The object was donated to the Freer Study Collection in 1977 and was transferred to the Permanent Collection on March 3, 1978. See original copy of statement dated November 28, 1977, and letter dated Dec 5, 1977, copies in the object file, Collections Management Office. See also note 1.

• 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)

• Previous custodian or owner

  Anonymous

• Origin

  Arita, Saga prefecture, Japan

• Credit Line

  Anonymous gift in memory of Dr. Harold P. Stern

• Type

  Vessel

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• Name

  Henry, Province

• Place

  Japan, Saga prefecture, Arita

• Topic

  Cobalt pigment, Porcelain, Art, Animals, Insects, Arita ware, Edo period, Japan, (1600 - 1868), Japanese Art, Birds, Ceramics

• Culture

  Japanese

• Object Type

  Vessels (containers)