Dish

Object Details

• Description

  Large dish with everted broad rim, shallow cavetto, and wide flat bottom, on carved inward turning footrim.

  Clay: porcelain

  Glaze: transparent, blue-gray tonality; abraded on surface of bottom; five spur marks on bottom.

  Decoration: in underglaze cobalt, lines and graded washes; in bottom, surrounded by double line, garden scene with one phoenix seated on a tall pierced rock and a second in flight overhead, a camellia plant to the left and a pomegranate plant to the right; in the cavetto and rim, six large lobed panels set off by double-line border on a blue ground and separated by floral vinescrolls; in the panels, two landscape scenes in alternation--peony plant and rock, and stylized pine, plum, and bamboo combination. Back of plate undecorated.

  Mark: none.

• Collection

  Freer Gallery of Art Collection

• Exhibition History

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

• Origin

  Arita, Saga prefecture, Japan

• Credit Line

  Gift of Karol Kirberger Rodriguez

• Type

  Vessel

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• Place

  Japan, Saga prefecture, Arita

• Topic

  Art, Camellia, Ceramics, Plants, Flowers, Pine tree, Landscapes, Cobalt pigment, Porcelain, Arita ware, Edo period, Japan, (1600 - 1868), Japanese Art, Phoenix, Bamboo

• Culture

  Japanese

• Object Type

  Vessels (containers)