Object Details
- Description
- Jar of globular form, with cover and small handle on top
- Clay: white porcelain.
- Glaze: transparent.
- Decoration: floral patterns, roundels, and diaper patterns in underglaze blue and overglaze enamels and gold.
- Marks
- Daikon in overglaze red and gold on base.
- Provenance
- To 1962
- Harry C. Nail Jr., Atherton, California. [1]
- From 1962
- Freer Gallery of Art, purchased from Harry C. Nail Jr., Atherton, California. [2]
- Notes:
- [1] Curatorial Remark 1 in the object record.
- [2] See note 1.
- Collection
- Freer Gallery of Art Collection
- Exhibition History
- Summer Whites: Japanese Porcelain (July 1, 1983 to March 15, 1984)
- Japanese Ceramics (April 11, 1978 to January 17, 1980)
- Bicentennial Exhibition: Japanese Art (December 15, 1975 to November 10, 1976)
- 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)
- Previous custodian or owner
- Harry C. Nail Jr. (1909-1990)
- Data Source
- Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
- Date
- 1690-1720 or 1868-1912
- Period
- Edo period or Meiji era
- Credit Line
- Purchase — Charles Lang Freer Endowment
- Medium
- Porcelain with cobalt decoration under transparent glaze, enamel decoration over glaze
- Dimensions
- H x W: 14 x 13.3 cm (5 1/2 x 5 1/4 in)
- Style
- Arita ware, Kenjo Imari type
- Type
- Vessel
