Arita ware drug pot (albarello) with European decoration

Object Details

• Description

  Wheel-thrown cylindrical vessel with wide mouth, curved shoulder, and somewhat tapering base raised on a small, everted foot. Porcelain, with minute black inclusions. Painted in cobalt under the glaze, a horned satyr's head among floral scrolls, swags, and a shell set in an elaborate surround for a scroll used to inscribe the name of the contents.

• Provenance

  1993

  Unknown Japanese dealer, purchased at auction, Christie's, London, November 15, 1993, lot no. 364 [1]

  Idemitsu Museum of Arts, Tokyo [2]

  To 2003

  Anthony Carter, London, to 2003

  From 2003

  Freer Gallery of Art, purchased from Anthony Carter in 2003

  Notes:

  [1] According to Curatorial Note 1, Louise Cort, September 22, 2003, in the object record.

  [2] See note 1.

• Collection

  Freer Gallery of Art Collection

• Exhibition History

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

• Previous custodian or owner

  Idemitsu Museum of Arts

  Anthony Carter

• Origin

  Arita, Saga prefecture, Japan

• Credit Line

  Purchase — Charles Lang Freer Endowment

• Type

  Vessel

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• Name

  Idemitsu Museum of Arts, Carter, Anthony

• Place

  Japan, Saga prefecture, Arita

• Topic

  Porcelain, Art, Arita ware, Edo period, Japan, (1600 - 1868), Japanese Art, Flowers

• Culture

  Japanese

• Object Type

  Vessels (containers)