Medium:

Stoneware with white slip and iron pigment under feldspathic glaze

Dimensions:

H x Diam: 12.5 × 14 cm (4 15/16 × 5 1/2 in)

Type:

Vessel

Origin:

Japan

Date:

late 18th-mid 19th century

Period:

Edo period

Description:

Water jar (mizusashi), rectangular rim and round foot, base recessed, unglazed.

Clay: coarse gray stoneware.

Glaze: transparent, grayish, crackled in places.

Decoration: flower painted in iron brown and black under the glaze, and areas of heavily painted white slip, badly chipped.

Provenance:

To 1899

Yamanaka & Company, New York to 1899 [1]

From 1899 to 1919

Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Yamanaka & Company in 1899 [2]]

From 1920

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

Notes:

[1] See Original Pottery List, L. 166, 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:

Tea Bowls in Bloom: Botanical Decoration on Tea Ceremony Ceramics (February 3 to July 15, 2007)

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)

Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)

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Credit Line:

Gift of Charles Lang Freer

Accession Number:

F1899.11a-b

Restrictions & Rights:

CC0

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Data Source:

Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery

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