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Medium:
Stoneware with white slip under clear glaze; gold lacquer repairs
Dimensions:
H x Diam: 5.3 × 19.9 cm (2 1/16 × 7 13/16 in)
Style:
Yatsushiro ware
Type:
Vessel
Origin:
Kumamoto prefecture, Japan
Date:
18th century
Period:
Edo period
Description:
Dish, low, round, or irregular contour, moulded with spiral corrugations. Repaired with gold lacquer.
Clay: hard, dense.
Glaze: rich, yellow-cream filling hollows or corrugations, over gray-blue; minutely crackled.
Provenance:
Matsuoka Collection, Kanazawa, Japan [1]
To 1904
Yamanaka & Company, New York, NY, to 1904 [2]
From 1904 to 1919
Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Yamanaka & Company, New York, NY, in 1904 [3]
From 1920
Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [4]
Notes:
[1] See Curatorial Remark 1 in the object record.
[2] See Original Pottery List, L. 1329, 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:
Golden Seams: The Japanese Art of Mending Ceramics (November 8, 2008 to May 10, 2009)
Previous custodian or owner:
Matsuoka collection, Kanazawa
Yamanaka and Co. 山中商会 (1917-1965) (C.L. Freer source)
Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)
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Edo period (1615 - 1868)  Search this
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Credit Line:
Gift of Charles Lang Freer
Accession Number:
F1904.329
Restrictions & Rights:
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Data Source:
Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
GUID:
http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ye37dc155d3-8d8d-488a-b09a-999c1c28ee7c
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:fsg_F1904.329