Object Details
- Description
- Two dishes stuck together, fragments.
- Clay: porcelain.
- Glaze: clear with play blue tint. Heavy grit adhesion.
- Decoration: in cobalt pigment under the glaze. Ship with sail design in center. "Fuyo-de" rim decor.
- Mark: none. Inscription on base.
- Inscriptions
- "Nakashirakawa" inscribed in black grease pencil by John A. Pope.
- Collection
- Freer Study Collection
- Data Source
- Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
- Date
- 1640-1660
- Period
- Edo period
- Credit Line
- Gift of Dr. John Alexander Pope
- Medium
- Porcelain with cobalt pigment under clear glaze
- Dimensions
- W: 13 cm (5 1/8 in)
- W: 5.8 cm (2 5/16 in)
- W: 3.2 cm (1 1/4 in)
- Style
- Arita ware
- Type
- Vessel
