Medium:

Stoneware with cobalt pigment under clear glaze

Dimensions:

H x Diam: 8 × 11.6 cm (3 1/8 × 4 9/16 in)

Style:

Odo ware

Type:

Vessel

Origin:

Odo kiln, Kochi, Kochi prefecture, Japan

Date:

18th-19th century

Period:

Edo period

Description:

Tea-bowl, ovoid; on deep foot, notched.

Clay: light, soft, white.

Glaze: cream white with heavier greenish-white overflow; crackled. Somewhat underfired.

Decoration: in pale gray-blue under glaze; crane and reeds.

Provenance:

To 1900

Bunkio Matsuki (1867-1940), Boston, to 1900 [1]

From 1900 to 1919

Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Bunkio Matsuki in Boston in 1900 [2]

From 1920

Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [3]

Notes:

[1] See Original Pottery List, L. 765, 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:

Feathered Ink (August 27, 2022 to February 20, 2023)

Previous custodian or owner:

Bunkio Matsuki 松木文恭 (1867-1940) (C.L. Freer source)

Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)

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Credit Line:

Gift of Charles Lang Freer

Accession Number:

F1900.69

Restrictions & Rights:

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Data Source:

Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery

GUID:

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ye3b8d711ce-418c-42ee-90c1-d70476cd01fd

EDAN-URL:

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