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Yatsushiro ware tea cup with Korean-style decoration

Description:: Tea-bowl, small, cylindrical. Repairs of gold lacquer and wax.; Clay: hard, dense.; Glaze: thin, dull gray, crackled inside.; Decoration: inlaid with white paste, under glaze. Inlaid numeral.

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 1901 [2]; From 1920; Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [2]; Notes:; [1]; See Pottery List, L. 1011, 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:: Korean Style in Japanese Ceramics (August 23, 2013 to February 9, 2014); Japanese Ceramics/Puppets (June 16, 1980 to July 14, 1980); Japanese Ceramics (April 11, 1978 to January 17, 1980); Birds and Flowers of the Four Seasons in Japanese Art (September 14, 1977 to April 8, 1978)

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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