Dish with design of peonies and rock

Object Details

• Description

  Large dish with upcurved edge and plain rim.

  Clay: porcelain, grayish white with some dark impurities.

  Glaze: transparent, slightly greenish cast. Footrim unglazed and rough, some small chips.

  Decoration: in underglaze cobalt, dark blue outline filled with three shades of blue wash, details in dark blue. On front, two large full-blown peony blossoms to left and moss-covered rock to right, partially obscured by bands of conventionalized mist. On back, two variations of cash design, repeated in alternation four times each.

• Inscriptions

  Mark: false Ming dynasty Chenghua era (1465-87) six-character mark on base.

• Provenance

  To 1988

  Okochi Sadao, Nagoya, Japan. [1]

  From 1988

  Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Okochi Sadao, Nagoya, Japan. [2]

  Notes:

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

  [2] See note 1.

• Collection

  Freer Gallery of Art Collection

• Previous custodian or owner

  Okochi Sadao

• Origin

  Arita, Saga prefecture, Japan

• Credit Line

  Gift of Okochi Sadao

• Type

  Vessel

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• Name

  Okochi, Sadao

• Place

  Japan, Saga prefecture, Arita

• Topic

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

• Culture

  Japanese

• Object Type

  Vessels (containers)