Medium:

Porcelain with white slip and cobalt pigment under clear glaze

Dimensions:

H x Diam: 6.5 × 12.5 cm (2 9/16 × 4 15/16 in)

Style:

Koto ware

Type:

Vessel

Origin:

Hikone, Shiga prefecture, Japan

Date:

mid 19th century

Period:

Edo period

Description:

Tea bowl, ovoidal, on short, expanding foot.

Clay: hard, sonorous; porcelain

Glaze: creamy, tinged with pinkish-tan, over white slip; orange flush on foot where clay is exposed

Decoration: painted in Seto cobalt under glaze, bamboo grass (sasa)

Seal: Koto [Jpn], inside double oval, impressed outside foot.

Marks:

Koto

Provenance:

To 1901

Bunkio Matsuki (1867-1940), Boston, to 1901 [1]

From 1901 to 1919

Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Bunkio Matsuki in Boston in 1901 [2]

From 1920

Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [2]

Notes:

[1]

See Pottery List, L. 1010, 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:

Seasons: Tea (February 5 to August 7, 2011)

Seasons: Arts of Japan (February 5, 2011 to January 13, 2013)

Garden Potteries and Official Kilns: Clan-Sponsored Ceramics in the Edo Period (January 16, 1986 to November 3, 1986)

Centennial Exhibition, Galleries 3 and 4 (February 25, 1956 to January 1, 1963)

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:

F1901.120

Restrictions & Rights:

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Data Source:

Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery

GUID:

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EDAN-URL:

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