Glaze: gray-white and dark yellow under glaze; heavy overflow of yellow-olive and seal-brown, flecked with white and blue. Red-brown wash on lower body.
Weighed by Matsumura Makiko: 110.49 grams.
Brown, white, and black glazes applied in layers. Interior glazed. String-cut base (wheel revolving counter-clockwise).
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. 733, 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)
Rusticity Refined: Kyoto Ceramics by Ninsei (March 19 to October 23, 2005)
Garden Potteries and Official Kilns: Clan-Sponsored Ceramics in the Edo Period (January 16, 1986 to November 3, 1986)
Previous custodian or owner:
Yamanaka and Co. 山中商会 (1917-1965) (C.L. Freer source)
