Medium:

Stoneware with copper-tinted rice-straw ash glaze

Dimensions:

H x Diam: 6.9 × 8.7 cm (2 11/16 × 3 7/16 in)

Style:

Kaseizan ware

Type:

Furniture and Furnishing

Origin:

Tokyo or Kyoto, Japan

Date:

late 18th century

Period:

Edo period

Description:

Sake-cup stand (haidai) in plum-blossom shape, five stump feet, unglazed. Tip of one foot broken off.

Clay: hard, fine, grayish.

Glaze: grayish-blue-green with small yellow spots; crackled.

Mark on the base.

Marks:

Mark: "Kaseizan," in relief without border.

Mark: "Kaseizan," in relief without border.

Provenance:

To 1901

R. Wagner, Berlin, to 1901 [1]

From 1901 to 1919

Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from R. Wagner in 1901 [2]

From 1920

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

Notes:

[1] See Original Pottery List, L. 912, 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

Previous custodian or owner:

R. Wagner (C.L. Freer source)

Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)

Topic:

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rice-straw-ash glaze  Search this

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Credit Line:

Gift of Charles Lang Freer

Accession Number:

F1901.180

Restrictions & Rights:

Usage conditions apply

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Data Source:

Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery

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