Six-sided jar

Object Details

• Description

  Wheel-thrown shape (throwing marks visible on interior), deformed into six vertical facets, their edges accentuated by applied vertical strips of clay smoothed to sharp edges. The base is glazed. The inside of the neck, where a domed lid would have rested, is unglazed.

  A single image fills the entire body nearly to the base; peony and chrysanthemum plants in full bloom in a garden, with rockery and ornamental fences, smaller plants and grasses. A narrow border of pointed motifs circle the lower wall above the projecting base. On the six facets of the neck, bilaterally symmetrical abstract peony sprays alternate with lozenge pattern.

• Collection

  Freer Gallery of Art Collection

• Exhibition History

  200 years of Japanese Porcelain (October 9, 1970 to January 3, 1971)

• Origin

  Arita, Saga prefecture, Japan

• Credit Line

  Gift of Mrs. John Alexander Pope

• Type

  Vessel

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• Place

  Japan, Saga prefecture, Arita

• Topic

  Arita ware, Imari type, Porcelain, Art, Peony, Chrysanthemum, Edo period, Japan, (1600 - 1868), Japanese Art, Ceramics

• Culture

  Japanese

• Object Type

  Vessels (containers)