Description
This fuchi is decorated with the autumn motif of herons and reeds. The background is a fish egg pattern ("nanako-ji"). The matching kashira is Walters 51.1107.
Provenance
William T. / Henry Walters Collection, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
Inscriptions
[Signature] 石黒政常; [Translation] Ishiguro Masatsune; [Number] In pencil: 809
Credit
Acquired by William T. or Henry Walters
