Octagonal molded serving dish

Object Details

• Description

  Octagonal molded serving dish (kobachi) with floral design.

  Clay: dense buff stoneware, darkened on surface. Vessel formed in press-mold. Interior surface uneven from pressure of artisan's fingers.

  Glaze: transparent, thick, crackled, gray-green on exterior of dish with irregularities in color (dabs of white slip under glaze?), reddish on interior (applied over thin iron wash?). Rim and inside wall near rim unglazed (possibly indicating that dish originally had matching lid). Footrim unglazed.

  Decoration: inside, in underglaze cobalt and iron, sprays of abstract leaves and tendrils. Outside, in underglaze iron, large-scale keyfret border just below rim.

  Mark: none

• Provenance

  To 1988

  Okochi Sadao, Nagoya, Japan, to 1988

  From 1988

  Freer Gallery of Art, given by Okochi Sadao in 1988

• Collection

  Freer Gallery of Art Collection

• Previous custodian or owner

  Okochi Sadao

• Origin

  Kyoto, Kyoto prefecture, Japan

• Credit Line

  Gift of Okochi Sadao

• Type

  Vessel

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• Name

  Okochi, Sadao

• Place

  Kyoto, Japan, Kyoto prefecture

• Topic

  Art, Stoneware, Kyoto ware, Edo period, Japan, (1600 - 1868), Japanese Art, Ceramics, Flowers

• Culture

  Japanese

• Object Type

  Vessels (containers)