Gourd-shaped serving bowl

Object Details

• Artist

  Nin'ami Dohachi 仁阿弥道八 (1783-1855)

• Description

  Gourd-shaped serving vessel on three feet.

  Clay: fine-grained gray stoneware

  Glaze: clear, colorless glaze

  Decoration: two gourd leaves and a tendril with incised details, one leaf colored with cobalt pigment, the other leaf and the tendril with iron pigment; rim edged with iron pigment; gold leaf applied with lacquer over the glaze.

  Seal: conch-shaped seal reading "Dohachi," impressed on center of base.

  Paulownia wood box, observe of lid inscribed by the maker: "Hisago-gata hachi (gourd-shaped serving bowl). . .Dohachi [conch-shaped black seal reading "Dohachi"].

  a= bowl

  b= box

  c= lid

  d= paper cover

  e= padded white interior cloth

  f= exterior cloth

• Inscriptions

  Seal: conch-shaped seal reading "Dohachi," impressed on center of base.

  Seal: conch-shaped seal reading "Dohachi," impressed on center of base.

• Collection

  Freer Gallery of Art Collection

• Exhibition History

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

  Poetic License: Making Old Worlds New (February 2 to August 4, 2013)

• Origin

  Momoyama kiln, Fushimi, Kyoto, Kyoto prefecture, Japan

• Credit Line

  Purchase — funds provided by the Friends of the National Museum of Asian Art

• Type

  Vessel

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• Name

  Nin'ami, Dohachi

• Place

  Fushimi, Momoyama kiln, Kyoto, Japan, Kyoto prefecture

• Topic

  Late Edo period (1716 - 1868), Cobalt pigment, Art, Gourd, Stoneware, Edo period, Japan, (1600 - 1868), Japanese Art, Ceramics, Iron pigment

• Culture

  Japanese

• Object Type

  Vessels (containers)