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Dish with design of bird and chrysanthemums

Object Details

Description
Large shallow dish with plain rim, flat brown lip.
Clay: coarse whitish porcelain, fired brownish.
Glaze: mustard yellow, green, aubergine, lavender.
Decoration: chrysanthemums and bird on yellow ground, lavender foreground. Brown scrolls outside.
Mark: in brown in sloppily glazed base: Fuku.
Marks
Fuku, in brown in sloppily glazed base
Provenance
To 1967
N.V. Hammer, Inc., New York. [1]
From 1967
Freer Gallery of Art, purchased from N.V. Hammer, Inc., New York. [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)
Summer Whites: Japanese Porcelain (July 1, 1983 to March 15, 1984)
Japanese Ceramics (April 11, 1978 to January 17, 1980)
Japanese Ukiyo-e Painting (May 2, 1973 to July 1, 1974)
Previous custodian or owner
N.V. Hammer, Inc.
Data Source
Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
Date
1655-1660
Period
Edo period
Credit Line
Purchase — Charles Lang Freer Endowment
Medium
Porcelain with cobalt pigment under enamel glazes
Dimensions
H x W: 7 x 33 cm (2 3/4 x 13 in)
Style
Arita ware, Aode Kutani type
Type
Vessel
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