Stoneware with iron and rice-straw-ash glazes; ivory lid
Dimensions:
H x Diam: 5.2 × 6.8 cm (2 1/16 × 2 11/16 in)
Style:
Takatori ware
Type:
Vessel
Origin:
Uchigaso kiln, Nogata, Fukuoka prefecture, Japan
Date:
1614-1624
Period:
Edo period
Description:
Tea caddy, short broad jar with waist, wide mouth, everted lip, flat base, ivory cover. Named "Yariume."
Clay: medium buff stoneware.
Glaze: dark olive with opaque white and bluish overflowing on one side and covering base. Interior unglazed.
Provenance:
Mr. Funahashi, Kyoto [1]
To 1903
Bunkio Matsuki (1867-1940), Boston, to 1903 [2]
From 1903 to 1919
Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Bunkio Matsuki in 1903 [3]
From 1920
Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [4]
Notes:
[1] Curatorial Remarks, Louise A. Cort, 1986: Freer acquired, through Matsuki, five pieces from the Funahashi collection (F1903.275--F1903.279). An undated "List of Shipment" from Matsuki (Matsuki letter no. 30) gives the following: "Following five important pottery are from the sale of Late Mr. Funahashi of Kioto famous wholesale silk dealer for many generation. The sale was under the management of Mr. Shinsuke Hayashi from whom your great Sotatsu screen came."
[2] See Original Pottery List, L. 1276, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives.
[3] See note 2.
[4] 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:
Imperfectly Beautiful: Inventing Japanese Ceramic Style (October 14, 2017 - October 14, 2019)
Cornucopia: Ceramics of Southern Japan (December 19, 2009 to January 9, 2011)
