Object Details
- Description
- Blue and white, bowl, foliated (molded), base fragment, low flat foot (glazed in center).
- Clay: white porcelain.
- Glaze: clear glaze with cobalt pigment.
- Decoration: clear glazed exterior with janome base (snake eye) (making it late). Clear glazed interior with cobalt blue decorations, landscape (samsui) with water, a boat, mountain, a pavilion.
- Contains spur marks.
- Marks
- Three spur marks clearly visible on top.
- Provenance
- To 1968
- John A. Pope (1906-1982), Washington DC, collected in Taku Oyama 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
- 1690-1750
- Period
- Edo period
- Credit Line
- Gift of John A. Pope
- Medium
- Porcelain with cobalt pigment under clear glaze
- Style
- Arita ware
- Type
- Vessel
