Porcelain with cobalt pigment under clear glaze, and iron glaze
Dimensions:
H x Diam: 20.2 × 10.9 cm (7 15/16 × 4 5/16 in)
Style:
Nagayo or Hasami ware
Type:
Vessel
Origin:
Nagayo, Nagasaki prefecture, Japan
Date:
1780-1820
Period:
Edo period
Description:
Sake Bottle, gourd shaped with bulbous neck.
Clay: hard, resonant, gray
Glaze: brilliant tortoise-shell, in rich red-brown, splashed with yellow; gray and greenish-black on upper part.
Decoration: impure cobalt, under glaze on rim of neck.
Provenance:
To 1902
Samuel Colman (1832-1920), New York, NY, and Newport, RI, to 1902 [1]
From 1902 to 1919
Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased at the sale of the Samuel Colman Collection, American Art Association, New York, March 19-22, 1902 [2]
From 1920
Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [3]
Notes:
[1] See Original Pottery List, L. 1124, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives. Samuel Colman was collecting Asian objects by at least 1880 (see Curatorial Remark 18, Louise Cort, April 20, 2007, in the object record).
[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:
Japanese Ceramics from Past to Present (February 18, 1983 to February 16, 1984)
Previous custodian or owner:
Samuel Colman (1832-1920)
American Art Association (established 1883) (C.L. Freer source)