Karatsu ware serving dish

Object Details

• Description

  Karatsu ware, Takeo Karatsu type, mishima Karatsu style.

  Wheel-thrown dish; carved footring; decoration painted with white slip and iron or incised and stamped and inlaid with white slip.

  In center, two facing cranes painted with white slip, details painted in black iron pigment. Surrounded by radiating bands of stamped decoration filled with white slip. In bottom: full-face plum blossoms; full-face aster blossoms; zigzag stripes. On side (both inside and out): net-like lattice. On everted rim: full-face aster blossoms, broken in two places by geometric patterns.

• Provenance

  1990

  Christie's, London, March 21-22, 1990, lot no. 137 [1]

  To 1992

  Andy Saylor, Richmond, Virginia, to 1992 [2]

  From 1992

  Freer Gallery of Art, purchased from Andy Saylor in 1992

  Notes:

  [1] According to the Christie's catalog, this object appeared in the March 21-22 auction, but was not sold (see Curatorial Note 7, Louise Cort, May 22, 2004, in the object record).

  [2] According to information in the object record, Andy Saylor purchased the object at an estate auction, with information that the dish had been purchased in Japan during the 1950s (see Curatorial Note 7, A. Saylor, November 11, 1991, in the object record).

• Collection

  Freer Gallery of Art Collection

• Exhibition History

  Arts of Japan: Edo Aviary and Poetic License (February 2 to August 4, 2013)

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

• Previous custodian or owner

  Andy Saylor

• Origin

  Shirakibaru or Kamanokashira kilns, Takeo city, Saga prefecture, Japan

• Credit Line

  Purchase — Charles Lang Freer Endowment

• Type

  Vessel

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• Name

  Saylor, Andy

• Place

  Kamanokashira kilns, Takeo city, Japan, Saga prefecture, Shirakibaru

• Topic

  Karatsu ware, Takeo Karatsu type, Art, Inlay (process), Stoneware, Edo period, Japan, (1600 - 1868), Japanese Art, Ceramics, Crane

• Culture

  Japanese

• Object Type

  Vessels (containers)