Stoneware with rice-straw-ash and iron glazes; ivory lid
Dimensions:
H x Diam: 10.5 × 7.7 cm (4 1/8 × 3 1/16 in)
Style:
Satsuma ware, Old Chosa type
Type:
Vessel
Origin:
Tateno kiln group, Uto or Osato kiln, Kagoshima prefecture, Japan
Date:
17th century
Period:
Edo period
Description:
Tea caddy (chaire). Gourd shape. Ivory cover.
Clay: dense, light gray, darkened on surface.
Glaze: rich, mingled black, brown, gray-white, gray-green, over thin brown wash. Opaque white glaze applied over black glaze on neck and shoulder. Lower two-thirds of interior unglazed.
Weight by Matsumura Makiko: 159.25 grams.
Provenance:
To 1901
Siegfried Bing (1838-1905), Paris to 1901 [1]
From 1901 to 1919
Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Siegfried Bing, Paris in 1901
From 1920
Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [3]
Notes:
[1] See Original Pottery List, L. 936, 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:
James McNeill Whistler at the Freer Gallery of Art (May 11, 1984 to December 5, 1984)
