Description
One side of the fuchi is decorated with a pheasant. The other side has two peonies, some rocks and a stream. Both peonies and pheasants are associated with spring. This is part of a set with Walters 51.933.
Provenance
William T. / Henry Walters Collection, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
Inscriptions
[Signature] 菊川久英作; [Transliteration] Kikugawa Hisateru saku; [Translation] Made by Kikugawa Hisateru
Credit
Acquired by William T. or Henry Walters