Medium:

Stoneware with white slip brushed under clear glaze

Dimensions:

H x Diam: 5.3 × 19.5 cm (2 1/16 × 7 11/16 in)

Style:

Yatsushiro ware

Type:

Vessel

Origin:

Kumamoto prefecture, Japan

Date:

1650-1800

Period:

Edo period

Description:

Higo. Shodai ware; Hakeme technique.

Dish, shallow, flaring, circular.

Clay: hard, heavy, coarse, grayish.

Glaze: gray and olive, with copper-brown fleckings; greenish gray-white hakeme on both surfaces; pitted and blistered.

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. 1054, 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:

Cornucopia: Ceramics of Southern Japan (December 19, 2009 to January 9, 2011)

Korean Influences on Japanese Slip-Decorated Ceramics (February 16, 1984 to November 9, 1984)

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:

F1901.153

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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