Medium:

Stoneware with iron and ash glazes; ivory lid

Dimensions:

H x Diam: 8.4 × 6.4 cm (3 5/16 × 2 1/2 in)

Style:

Seto ware

Type:

Vessel

Origin:

Heiji kiln, Seto, Aichi prefecture, Japan

Date:

1625-1655

Period:

Edo period

Description:

Tea caddy (chaire), katatsuki shape, with ivory cover.

Clay: light, grayish, flushed red in places. String-cut foot.

Glaze: brilliant, copper-brown iron glaze, flecked with black, and splashed with ash glaze, yellow edged with black. Interior unglazed.

Provenance:

To 1901

Yamanaka & Company, New York, NY, to 1901 [1]

From 1901 to 1919

Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Yamanaka & Company in 1901 [2]

From 1920

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

Notes:

[1] See Original Pottery List, L. 1024, 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:

The Tea Ceremony in Japan XII (July 2, 2000 to February 4, 2001)

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

Previous custodian or owner:

Yamanaka and Co. 山中商会 (1917-1965) (C.L. Freer source)

Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)

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Credit Line:

Gift of Charles Lang Freer

Accession Number:

F1901.134a-b

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Data Source:

Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery

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