Stoneware with white and black inlays under celadon glaze
Dimensions:
H x Diam: 7 × 16.1 cm (2 3/4 × 6 5/16 in)
Type:
Vessel
Origin:
Japan or Korea
Date:
19th century
Period:
Edo period, Meiji era, or Joseon period
Description:
Tea bowl, named "Chasen-susugi," deep ovoidal; small, low foot; three spur marks.
Clay: hard, thinly modeled, musical.
Glaze: brilliant pale gray-green celadon; brown crackle.
Decoration: inlaid with white and black under glaze. Inside: five fruited sprays with white inlay. Outside: band of lotus arabesque; flying cranes and clouds alternating with four floral medallions with white and black inlay.
Spurs: three silica spurs on base.
Provenance:
To 1900
Yamanaka & Company, to 1900 [1]
From 1900 to 1919
Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Yamanaka & Company in 1900 [2]
From 1920
Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [3]
Notes:
[1] Undated folder sheet note. See Original Pottery List, L. 672, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives. The majority of Charles Lang Freer’s purchases from Yamanaka & Company were made at its New York branch. Yamanaka & Company maintained branch offices, at various times, in Boston, Chicago, London, Peking, Shanghai, Osaka, Nara, and Kyoto. During the summer, the company also maintained seasonal locations in Newport, Bar Harbor, and Atlantic City.
[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:
Rediscovering Korea’s Past (October 14, 2017 - ongoing)
Previous custodian or owner:
Yamanaka and Co. 山中商会 (1917-1965) (C.L. Freer source)
