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Koto ware tea bowl with design of yuzuriha
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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)
Topic:
Koto ware
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Credit Line:
Gift of Charles Lang Freer
Accession Number:
F1901.120
Restrictions & Rights:
Usage conditions apply
Related Online Resources:
Google Cultural Institute
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Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Collection
Data Source:
Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
GUID:
http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ye3c457b0fd-f26d-43a2-94b5-0abea45b5c91
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:fsg_F1901.120
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