Medium:

Stoneware with iron and ash glazes

Dimensions:

H x Diam: 37.5 × 21.2 cm (14 3/4 × 8 3/8 in)

Style:

Satsuma ware

Type:

Vessel

Origin:

Ryumonji kilns, Kagoshima prefecture, Japan

Date:

17th-18th century

Period:

Edo period

Description:

Sake flask (heishi [JPN]), tall inverted pear-shape; flaring at foot. Cf. F1896.34.

Clay: hard, dense, light gray.

Glaze: luminous aubergine mottled with copper-brown; thin overflow of light yellow-green, splashed with brilliant black.

Provenance:

To 1902

Bunkio Matsuki (1867-1940), Boston, to 1902 [1]

From 1902 to 1919

Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Bunkio Matsuki in 1902 [2]

From 1920

Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [2]

Notes:

[1]

See Original Pottery List, L. 1111, 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:

Bunkio Matsuki 松木文恭 (1867-1940) (C.L. Freer source)

Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)

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Credit Line:

Gift of Charles Lang Freer

Accession Number:

F1902.272

Restrictions & Rights:

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Data Source:

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