Object Details
- Description
- Large bottle with ovoid body and flaring lip.
- Clay: white porcelain.
- Glaze: milky white.
- Decoration: tree peonies and formal patterns in red, yellow, and green overglaze enamels. with black pigment details.
- Label
- Branches of a tree peony in full bloom, interspersed with disembodied orchid leaves, reach around this massive bottle. The color scheme of subdued red, green, and yellow pigments was formerly called Ko-Kutani style, but scholars now recognize it as an early phase of enamel-decorated porcelain at Arita, based on Chinese porcelains of the late Ming dynasty (1368-1644).
- Provenance
- To 1957
- John Sparks, Ltd. London, England. [1]
- From 1957
- Freer Gallery of Art, purchased from John Sparks, Ltd. London, England. [2]
- Notes:
- [1] Curatorial Remark 1 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)
- Selections from the Japanese Collection (March 22 to November 29, 1999)
- Varieties of 17th-Century Arita Porcelain (November 7, 1986 to July 19, 1988)
- Summer Whites: Japanese Porcelain (July 1, 1983 to March 15, 1984)
- Japanese Ceramics (June 22, 1982 to September 27, 1982)
- Japanese Ceramics (April 11, 1978 to January 17, 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—Paintings, Pottery (August 18, 1967 to September 20, 1971)
- 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)
- Previous custodian or owner
- John Sparks, Ltd. (1890-1992)
- Data Source
- Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
- Date
- 1650-1670
- Period
- Edo period
- Credit Line
- Purchase — Charles Lang Freer Endowment
- Medium
- Porcelain with enamels over clear colorless glaze
- Dimensions
- H x W: 46.8 x 25.3 cm (18 7/16 x 9 15/16 in)
- Style
- Arita ware, early enamel type
- Type
- Vessel
