Small bowl (fragment)

Object Details

• Description

  Blue-and-white; Small bowl fragment (part of foot and rim).

  Clay: white porcelain.

  Glaze: clear glaze on interior, cobalt pigment under clear glaze on exterior.

  Decoration: clear glaze on exterior with a floral motif (unbanded) and one bow stringline on base of cup, and two around the foot all in cobal blue.

• Provenance

  To 1968

  John A. Pope (1906-1982), Washington DC, collected in Hyakken kiln site. [1]

  From 1968

  Freer Gallery of Art, gift of John A. Pope, Washington DC [2]

  Notes:

  [1] See Study Collection catalogue card, Collections Management Office.

  [2] See note 1.

• Collection

  Freer Study Collection

• Previous custodian or owner

  Dr. John Alexander Pope (1906-1982)

• Origin

  Uchidayama (Hyakken) kiln site, Yamanouchi-cho, Saga prefecture, Japan

• Credit Line

  Gift of John A. Pope

• Type

  Vessel

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• Name

  Pope, John Alexander

• Place

  Japan, Yamanouchi-cho, Saga prefecture, Uchidayama

• Topic

  Cobalt pigment, Porcelain, Art, Clear glaze, Arita ware, Edo period, Japan, (1600 - 1868), Japanese Art, Ceramics

• Culture

  Japanese

• Object Type

  Vessels (containers)