Medium:

Stoneware with white slip inlaid under clear glaze

Dimensions:

H x Diam: 8.8 × 13.2 cm (3 7/16 × 5 3/16 in)

Style:

Yatsushiro ware

Type:

Vessel

Origin:

Kumamoto prefecture, Japan

Date:

late 19th century

Period:

Meiji era

Description:

Tea ceremony waste-water bowl (kensui [Jpn])

Clay: fine, fired reddish-brown

Glaze: lustrous, dark greenish-gray, fine crackle.

Decoration: two ducks and some grasses incised and inlaid with cream slip under glaze.

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. 173, 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:

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

Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)

Topic:

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ceramic  Search this

Yatsushiro ware  Search this

Meiji era (1868 - 1912)  Search this

tea  Search this

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white slip  Search this

Japanese Art  Search this

Charles Lang Freer collection  Search this

Credit Line:

Gift of Charles Lang Freer

Accession Number:

F1899.50

Restrictions & Rights:

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Data Source:

Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery

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