Stoneware with white slip and cobalt pigment under clear glaze
Dimensions:
H x Diam: 6.4 × 15.8 cm (2 1/2 × 6 1/4 in)
Style:
Arita ware, totai sometsuke type
Type:
Vessel
Origin:
possibly Shimo Shirakawa kilns, Arita, Saga prefecture, Japan
Date:
1670-1700
Period:
Edo period
Description:
Bowl with low foot and wide rim.
Clay: medium light gray stoneware, fired red on surface.
Glaze: transparent, crackled: large areas of brown stain, some areas unstained.
Decoration: spiral white slip painting under glaze inside with underglaze blue phoenix and pearl symbol with cloud scrolls. Outside are four blossom designs evenly spaced.
Provenance:
To 1899
S. Eida, to 1899 [1]
From 1899 to 1919
Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from S. Eida in 1899 [2]
From 1920
Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [3]
Notes:
[1] See Original Pottery List, L. 469, 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.
