Medium:

Earthenware with translucent amber and white glazes

Dimensions:

H x Diam: 9.5 × 13.9 cm (3 3/4 × 5 1/2 in)

Style:

Raku ware, unknown workshop

Type:

Vessel

Origin:

Japan

Date:

19th century

Period:

Edo period or Meiji era

Description:

Tea-bowl, large cylindrical; low, retired foot.

Clay: resonant, grayish-white; Raku type.

Glaze: pinkish cream-yellow, passing to greenish-gray, broadly splashed with olive and brown. Misfired Red Raku glaze?

Provenance:

To 1899

Yamanaka & Company, New York, NY, 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. 650, 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:

Special Exhibition of Japanese Pottery (October 29, 1971 to October 31, 1971)

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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Meiji era (1868 - 1912)  Search this

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Credit Line:

Gift of Charles Lang Freer

Accession Number:

F1899.67a-c

Restrictions & Rights:

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Data Source:

Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery

GUID:

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