Stoneware with white slip and cobalt pigment under clear glaze
Dimensions:
H x Diam: 4.5 × 13.9 cm (1 3/4 × 5 1/2 in)
Style:
Karatsu ware, Mishima type
Type:
Vessel
Origin:
Ureshino, Saga prefecture, Japan
Date:
1650-1700
Period:
Edo period
Description:
Bowl, small, shallow.
Clay: medium stoneware, purplish brown.
Glaze: clear.
Decoration: in slip under glaze; cranes and small scroll in underglaze blue. Mishima & hakeme techniques.
Label:
This charming bowl, made at a Karatsu kiln, evokes classical mishima motifs with stylized flower-heads and delicate 'rope curtain' stamps, revealed by careful removal of slip. At the same time, the popularity of cobalt-decorated porcelain is acknowledged by the "crane and cloud" motif sketches in cobalt on the remaining slip.
Provenance:
To 1896
Bunkio Matsuki (1867-1940), Boston, to 1896 [1]
From 1896 to 1919
Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Bunkio Matsuki in 1896 [2]
From 1920
Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [3]
Notes:
[1] See Original Pottery List, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives.
[2] See note 1.
[3] The original deed of Charles Lang Freer's gift was signed in 1906. The collection was received in 1920 upon the completion of the Freer Gallery.
Collection:
Freer Gallery of Art Collection
Exhibition History:
Cornucopia: Ceramics of Southern Japan (December 19, 2009 to January 9, 2011)
Korean Influences on Japanese Slip-Decorated Ceramics (February 16, 1984 to November 9, 1984)
