Hizen ware dish in Imari style

Object Details

• Description

  Large dish with uneven surface.

  Clay: white porcelain;

  Glaze: transparent, slightly bluish;

  Decoration: in deep, thick underglaze blue and overglaze enamel colors and gold; flower basket in center.

• Label

  This dish bears a central motif of a bouquet of peonies in a vase resting on a terrace. Borrowed from a sixteenth-century Chinese porcelain design, the motif appears often on large Arita dishes decorated in the Imari style, which combines underglaze cobalt blue pigment with red, green, and gold enamels. Around the rim, zigzag lines separate peony sprays from camellias within cartouches on a chrysanthemum-patterned ground.

• Collection

  Freer Gallery of Art Collection

• Exhibition History

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

  Summer Whites: Japanese Porcelain (July 1, 1983 to March 15, 1984)

  Japanese Ceramics (June 22, 1982 to September 27, 1982)

  Japanese Ceramics (July 15, 1980 to June 21, 1982)

  Japanese Ceramics/Puppets (June 16, 1980 to July 14, 1980)

  Birds and Flowers of the Four Seasons in Japanese Art (September 14, 1977 to April 8, 1978)

  Japanese Ukiyo-e Painting (May 2, 1973 to July 1, 1974)

  Japanese Art, Galleries 3, 4, and 5 (January 1, 1963 to September 16, 1970)

  Ukiyo-e Exhibition (August 7, 1961 to January 1, 1963)

  Hokusai Bicentennial Exhibition (March 30, 1960 to August 16, 1961)

  Centennial Exhibition, Galleries 3 and 4 (February 25, 1956 to January 1, 1963)

• Origin

  Arita, Saga prefecture, Japan

• Credit Line

  Purchase — Charles Lang Freer Endowment

• Type

  Vessel

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• Place

  Japan, Saga prefecture, Arita

• Topic

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

• Culture

  Japanese

• Object Type

  Vessels (containers)