Object Details
- Description
- An unglazed stoneware firing disc with a clam shell design on one side.
- Clay: stoneware.
- Glaze: none.
- Decoration: clam shell design on one side.
- Provenance
- To 1968
- John A. Pope (1906-1982), Washington DC, collected in Hyakken kiln site. [1]
- From 1968
- Freer Gallery of Art, gift of John A. Pope, Washington DC [2]
- Notes:
- [1] See Study Collection catalogue card, Collections Management Office.
- [2] See note 1.
- Collection
- Freer Study Collection
- Previous custodian or owner
- Dr. John Alexander Pope (1906-1982)
- Data Source
- Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
- Date
- 1610-1659
- Period
- Edo period
- Credit Line
- Gift of John A. Pope
- Medium
- Stoneware
- Dimensions
- D: 5.6 cm (2 3/16 in)
- Style
- Arita ware
- Type
- Tool and Equipment
