Dish

Object Details

• Description

  Dish with deep sloping rim, thin wedge foot, six spur-marks on base.

  Clay: white porcelain

  Glaze: clear feldspathic

  Decoration: painted in underglaze cobalt blue of good quality in outline and wash. Chinese figure and attendant with parasol in landscape within deep compartmented border (fuyo-de style), copying a Chinese Wanli export style. Outside is a thin running leafy scroll with four single flowers evenly spaced. Double line on outside of foot, single line near foot on base.

• Label

  This style of dish, with its central painterly motif surrounded by a border of floral panels, was closely patterned after the type of Chinese Wanli era (1573-1619) export ware known in Europe as Kraak Porselein, after the Dutch term for the Portugese carracks or galleons that transported the goods from China to Indonesia. The format, which is called fuyode in Japanese, was produced in both monochrome and enameled versions for the Dutch East India Company. Central motifs are often derived from bird-and-flower painting, but this one shows an attendant shading a scholar who is lost in contemplation of a blossoming plant.

• Collection

  Freer Gallery of Art Collection

• Exhibition History

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

  The Idea of China in Japan: The Tea Ceremony in Japan (December 19, 1999 to June 11, 2000)

  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)

• Origin

  Arita, Saga prefecture, Japan

• Credit Line

  Anonymous gift in memory of Dr. Harold P. Stern

• Type

  Vessel

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• Place

  Japan, Saga prefecture, Arita

• Topic

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

• Culture

  Japanese

• Object Type

  Vessels (containers)