Dish with fluted rim, Mino ware, Ofuke type

Object Details

• Description

  Small dish with pleated rim.

  Clay: buff pottery.

  Glaze: transparent glaze with olive greenish tone (Ofuke glaze), large irregular cracks stained brown; glaze deeper green in tone where thick. Interior of footrim glazed; glazed wiped off outside of footrim and surrounding base.

  Decoration: pleating on narrow everted rim.

• Label

  The form of this dish with fluted rim distantly echoes the shape of Chinese Longquan-ware celadon dishes. (see also F1988.14)

• 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. See also Curatorial Remark 6 in the object record.

• Collection

  Freer Gallery of Art Collection

• Exhibition History

  Tea in the Floating World (December 8, 2002 to May 26, 2003)

• Previous custodian or owner

  Okochi Sadao

• Origin

  Gifu prefecture, Japan

• Credit Line

  Gift of Okochi Sadao

• Type

  Vessel

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• Name

  Okochi, Sadao

• Place

  Japan, Gifu prefecture

• Topic

  Art, Stoneware, Mino ware, Ofuke type, Wood-ash glaze, Edo period, Japan, (1600 - 1868), Japanese Art, Ceramics

• Culture

  Japanese

• Object Type

  Vessels (containers)