Medium:

Stoneware with iron wash and iron and rice-straw-ash glazes

Dimensions:

H x Diam: 10.2 × 22.3 cm (4 × 8 3/4 in)

Style:

Satsuma ware

Type:

Vessel

Origin:

possibly Ryumonji kilns, Kagoshima prefecture, Japan

Date:

18th-19th century

Period:

Edo period

Description:

Deep serving bowl with sides modeled in imitation of riveted lap-joints.

Clay: hard, gray.

Glaze: outside - dull purplish-brown, iron wash; inside - lustrous, blended browns and greens.

Provenance:

To 1904

Bunkio Matsuki (1867-1940), Boston, to 1904 [1]

From 1904 to 1919

Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Bunkio Matsuki in 1904 [2]

From 1920

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

Notes:

[1] See Original Pottery List, L. 1314, 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)

Mr. Ijuin of Satsuma

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Credit Line:

Gift of Charles Lang Freer

Accession Number:

F1904.286

Restrictions & Rights:

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Data Source:

Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery

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