Medium:

Stoneware with wood-ash and rice-straw-ash glazes

Dimensions:

H x Diam: 23.7 × 23.3 cm (9 5/16 × 9 3/16 in)

Style:

Tamba ware

Type:

Vessel

Origin:

Tamba, Hyogo prefecture, Japan

Date:

17th-18th century

Period:

Edo period

Description:

Jar, ovoid. Gold lacquer repairs.

Clay: hard, sonorous, grayish.

Glaze: dark yellow, finely crackled; broadly splashed with mingled grayish-yellow, blue, gray-green and faint mauve.

Provenance:

To 1898

Rufus E. Moore (1840 - 1918), New York to 1898 [1]

From 1898 to 1919

Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Rufus E. Moore in 1898 [2]

From 1920

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

Notes:

[1] See Original Pottery List, L. 28, 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

Previous custodian or owner:

Rufus E. Moore (1840-1918) (C.L. Freer source)

Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)

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rice-straw-ash glaze  Search this

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Credit Line:

Gift of Charles Lang Freer

Accession Number:

F1898.81

Restrictions & Rights:

CC0

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Data Source:

Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery

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