Object Details
- Description
- Plate, fragment of rim.
- Clay: porcelain.
- Glaze: clear.
- Decoration: in cobalt pigment under the glaze. Chinese lion-dog and peony design.
- Mark: none.
- Inscription on base.by John Pope: Nakashirakawa.
- Inscriptions
- "Nakashirakawa" inscribed in black grease paint by John A. Pope.
- Collection
- Freer Study Collection
- Data Source
- Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
- Date
- 1620-1680
- Period
- Edo period
- Credit Line
- Gift of Dr. John Alexander Pope, 1956
- Medium
- Porcelain with cobalt pigment under clear glaze
- Dimensions
- W: 13 cm (5 1/8 in)
- Style
- Arita ware
- Type
- Vessel
