Sake bottle
Object Details
- Description
- Bottle (tokkuri 徳利), octagonal, ovoidal.
- Clay: hard, white.
- Glaze: luminous cream-white; variable brown crackle.
- Decoration: in grayish tones, under glaze.
- Label
- The decoration on this bottle is attributed to the artist Kano Tangen, who served as the official painter for the Satsuma domain, where the bottle was made.
- Provenance
- To 1892
- Tozo Takayanagi, New York to 1892 [1]
- From 1892 to 1919
- Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Tozo Takayanagi in 1892 [2]
- From 1920
- Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [3]
- Notes:
- [1] See Original Pottery List, L. 93, 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
- Exhibition History
- The Peacock Room Comes to America [2022] (September 3, 2022 - ongoing)
- The Peacock Room Comes to America [2017-2019] (October 14, 2017 to January 2, 2019)
- Fine Impressions: Whistler, Freer, and Venice (October 18, 2014 to January 3, 2016)
- The Peacock Room Comes to America [2011-2016] (April 9, 2011 to January 4, 2016)
- Freer: A Taste for Japanese Art (July 1, 2006 to January 1, 2007)
- Whistler & Japan (May 14, 1995 to January 1, 1996)
- Garden Potteries and Official Kilns: Clan-Sponsored Ceramics in the Edo Period (January 16, 1986 to November 3, 1986)
- James McNeill Whistler at the Freer Gallery of Art: Artist and Patron (May 11, 1984 to January 17, 1985)
- Japanese Ceramics (April 11, 1978 to January 17, 1980)
- Previous custodian or owner
- Takayanagi Tozo 高柳陶造 (C.L. Freer source)
- Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)
- Credit Line
- Gift of Charles Lang Freer
- Data Source
- Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
- Date
- 18th century
- Period
- Edo period
- Accession Number
- F1892.26
- Artist
- Decoration attributed to Kano Tangen (1679-1767)
- Restrictions & Rights
- CC0
- Type
- Vessel
- Medium
- Stoneware with cobalt pigment under clear glaze
- Dimensions
- H x Diam: 21.8 x 17.8 cm (8 9/16 x 7 in)
- Style
- Satsuma ware, White Satsuma type
- Origin
- Hiyamizu kiln, Kagoshima, Kagoshima prefecture, Japan
- On View
- Freer Gallery 12: The Peacock Room Comes to America
- Related Online Resources
- Google Cultural Institute
- The Story of the Beautiful
- See more items in
- Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Collection
- Topic
- ceramic
- Satsuma ware, White Satsuma type
- Edo period (1615 - 1868)
- sake
- Japan
- stoneware
- Japanese Art
- Charles Lang Freer collection
- Record ID
- fsg_F1892.26
