Medium:

Stoneware with rice-straw-ash glaze

Dimensions:

H x W: 18 x 21.5 cm (7 1/16 x 8 7/16 in)

Style:

Hagi ware

Type:

Vessel

Origin:

Hagi, Yamaguchi prefecture, Japan

Date:

1912-1960

Period:

Taisho or Showa era

Description:

Shallow bowl with arching handle and high foot with two notches.

Clay: coarse buff gray stoneware fired reddish.

Glaze: opaque grayish white; crackled; uneven.

Decoration: none.

Provenance:

To 1968

N.V. Hammer, Inc., New York. [1]

From 1968

Freer Gallery of Art, purchased from N.V. Hammer, Inc., New York. [2]

Notes:

[1] Curatorial Remark 1 in the object record.

[2] See note 1.

Collection:

Freer Gallery of Art Collection

Exhibition History:

Japanese Ceramics (April 11, 1978 to January 17, 1980)

Japanese Art--Shinto (October 12, 1976 to December 10, 1976)

Japanese Paintings Attributed to Iwasa Matabei (July 1, 1974 to October 1, 1975)

Previous custodian or owner:

N.V. Hammer, Inc.

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Credit Line:

Purchase — Charles Lang Freer Endowment

Accession Number:

F1968.15

Restrictions & Rights:

Usage conditions apply

See more items in:

Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Collection

Data Source:

Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery

GUID:

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ye36ac119cf-1384-40b6-a834-91508a8c38ca

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:fsg_F1968.15