Medium:

Stoneware with rice-straw-ash glaze; lacquered wooden lid

Dimensions:

H x W x D (Assembled): 15.9 x 25.7 x 22.8 cm (6 1/4 x 10 1/8 x 9 in)

Style:

Hagi ware

Type:

Vessel

Origin:

Yamaguchi prefecture, Japan

Date:

17th century

Period:

Edo period

Description:

Tea ceremony water jar (mizusashi), large, deep, irregularly quadrilateral; four heavy stump feet; corrugated. Lacquer cover.

Clay: hard, dense, sonorous. Brown.

Glaze: clear glaze over white slip. Clear glaze extends over feet. Inside: hatched with radiating lines.

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. 1057, 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)

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:

F1901.155a-b

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