Dish in the form of Mt. Fuji, with Miho no matsubara

Object Details

• Description

  Dish in the form of Mt. Fuji, cone of the mountain forming triple point of triangle; unglazed wedge foot, 3 spur marks on base.

  Clay: white porcelain.

  Glaze: clear porcelain glaze.

  Decoration: painted in cobalt blue under glaze, outline and wash; travelers passing pine-banked bay near Mt. Fuji, conventionalized cloud patterns in bars and spirals below peak. Rows of pines outside.

• Provenance

  From at least 1956 to 1980

  Private collection, McLean, Virginia, purchased in Yokohama, Japan. [1]

  From 1980

  Freer Gallery of Art, gift of an anonymous donor, McLean, Virginia. [2]

  Notes:

  [1] The donor bought this dish in Yokohama just before he left Japan in 1956. See object file, Collections Management Office.

  [2] See Deed of Gift, copy in object file, Collections Management Office.

• Collection

  Freer Gallery of Art Collection

• Exhibition History

  Bountiful Waters: Aquatic Life in Japanese Art (March 8 to September 14, 2014)

  Cornucopia: Ceramics of Southern Japan (December 19, 2009 to January 9, 2011)

  Real and Imagined Places in Japanese Art (March 4 to October 21, 2001)

  Summer Whites: Japanese Porcelain (July 1, 1983 to March 15, 1984)

• 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

  Mountains, Cobalt pigment, Porcelain, Art, Arita ware, Mount Fuji, Edo period, Japan, (1600 - 1868), Japanese Art

• Culture

  Japanese

• Object Type

  Vessels (containers)