Form: wheel-thrown dish with wide, shallow footrim, fluted cavetto, and foliate rim. Fluting appears to be done by hand.
Clay: porcelain
Glaze: clear, colorless where thin, bluish where thick in uneven application or pooled in foliation of cavetto; worn off around most of rim.
Decoration: in shades of cobalt line and wash. In tondo, central full-faced flower with pointed petals, surrounded by circular frame edged with four cloud-collar motifs facing in four directions and enclosing floral sprays. Attached to double ring at edge of base, in spaces between points of cloud-collar motifs, four semicircular halves of full-face flowers with rounded petals in alternating light and dark blue. On fluted cavetto, angular, double-stemmed "vinescroll" supporting, in alternation, eight full-face flowers with pointed petals (identical to one in center of base) and eight pomegranates nesting in profile-view flowers with pointed petals. On back of cavetto, evenly spaced, three branches with fruits and leaves. In center of base, inside double circle, leaf shape.
Provenance:
From 1888-1911
Jan S.C. Kasteleign, acquired in Sumatra, Indonesia, in 1888-1911 [1]
To 1996
Mrs. Harriett Mathews, Bethesda, MD, by descent from Jan S.C. Kasteleign, to 1996 [2]
From 1996
Freer Gallery of Art, given by Mrs. Harriett Mathews in 1996
Notes:
[1] The object was acquired by Jan S.C. Kasteleign, the donor's maternal grandfather, who was the Dutch General Manager of Plantations in Sumatra, Indonesia (according to information in the object record). See also, Curatorial Remark 1, Louise A. Cort, August 27, 1996, in the object record.
[2] See note 1.
Collection:
Freer Gallery of Art Collection
Exhibition History:
The Peacock Room in Blue and White [2019-2022] (May 18, 2019 to June 1, 2022)
The Peacock Room (May 2, 1923 to February 21, 2011)
