Stoneware with white slip inlay and black slip under thin celadon glaze
Dimensions:
H x Diam: 5.2 × 8.8 cm (2 1/16 × 3 7/16 in)
Style:
Kyoto or Kyoto-related ware
Type:
Vessel
Origin:
Japan
Date:
19th century
Period:
Edo period or Meiji era
Description:
Small, ovoidal, with flattened shoulder; low basal ring.
Clay: hard, dense
Glaze: brilliant yellowish-gray with splashes of pale green.
Decoration: incised and inlaid with white; black lines painted - all under glaze.
Provenance:
To 1897
Charles A. Dana (1819-1897), New York to 1897 [1]
From 1898 to 1919
Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased at auction, the Dana Collection Sale, American Art Galleries, New York February 24-26, 1898 [2]
From 1920
Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [3]
Notes:
[1] See Original Pottery List, L. 306, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives.
[2] See note 1. This piece appears to have been object no. 1 in the Dana Collection sale catalogue (according to Curatorial Remark 6, Louise Cort, July 18, 2005, in the object record).
[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:
Korean Art (November 2, 1959 to November 22, 1971)
Untitled Exhibition, Korean Art, 1958 (July 10, 1958 to April 15, 1959)
Centennial Exhibition, Gallery 16 (February 25, 1956 to July 11, 1958)