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Jar with four lugs

Description:: Clay: dense, hard, grayish.; Glaze: warm, dark yellow; with thin brown overflow; minutely crackled. Incised mark.

Provenance:: To 1900; Rufus E. Moore, 1900 [1]; From 1900 to 1919; Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Rufus E. Moore in 1900 [2]; From 1920; Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [3]; Notes:; [1] See Original Pottery List, 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.

Exhibition History:: Storage Jars (March 15, 2014 to June 28, 2015); The Tea Ceremony as Melting Pot (January 31 to July 18, 2004); Storage Jars of Asia (October 29, 2000 to March 10, 2002); Untitled Exhibition of Ceramics (March 31, 1994 to March 6, 1995); Studies in Connoisseurship 1923-1983 (September 23, 1983 to March 1, 1984); Luminous Shadows (April 1, 1982 to June 21, 1982); Untitled Exhibition, Japanese Hanging Scrolls, Ceramics, and Sculpture (October 2, 1947 to January 23, 1951); Untitled Exhibition, Japanese Ceramics and Painting (May 2, 1946 to October 2, 1947); Japanese and Korean Pottery, and Korean Bronze (May 2, 1923 to March 22, 1943)

Previous custodian or owner:: Rufus E. Moore (1840-1918) (C.L. Freer source); Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)

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