Medium:

Stoneware with kiln-induced glaze

Dimensions:

H x Diam: 18.2 × 11.5 cm (7 3/16 × 4 1/2 in)

Style:

Bizen ware, Ao Bizen type

Type:

Vessel

Origin:

Imbe, Okayama prefecture, Japan

Date:

possibly 19th century

Period:

Edo period

Description:

Bottle, globular double-gourd, with short neck

Clay: hard, dense

Glaze: brilliant silvery gray, blue, and pale green over dull gray-green

Impressed mark [Jpn]

Provenance:

To 1898

Yamanaka & Company, New York to 1898 [1]

From 1898 to 1919

Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Yamanaka & Company in 1898 [2]

From 1920

Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [3]

Notes:

[1] See Original Pottery List, L. 175, 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:

Untitled Exhibition, Japanese Art, 1955 (October 25, 1955 to November 22, 1955)

Untitled Exhibition, Japanese Art, 1951 (January 23, 1951 to February 25, 1956)

Untitled Exhibition, Japanese Hanging Scrolls, Ceramics, and Sculpture (October 2, 1947 to January 23, 1951)

Untitled Exhibition, Japanese Ceramics and Painting (May 2, 1946 to October 2, 1947)

Japanese and Korean Pottery, and Korean Bronze (May 2, 1923 to March 22, 1943)

Previous custodian or owner:

Yamanaka and Co. 山中商会 (1917-1965) (C.L. Freer source)

Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)

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Credit Line:

Gift of Charles Lang Freer

Accession Number:

F1898.456

Restrictions & Rights:

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Data Source:

Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery

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