Tea bowl, unknown Raku ware workshop
Object Details
- Description
- Raku type ware, unknown kiln.
- Tea-bowl, very deep cylindrical; low foot. Gold lacquer repairs.
- Clay: soft, dense, grayish.
- Glaze: brilliant thick black, revealing yellow under.
- Inscription incised in paste.
- Inscriptions
- The inscription incised in the side of the bowl under the black glaze appears to read:
- Yamagami-ko no mei ni yori Doraku saku
- [JPN]
- Made by Doraku upon order of Lord Yamagami
- Provenance
- To 1894
- Tozo Takayanagi, New York to 1894 [1]
- From 1894 to 1919
- Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Tozo Takayanagi in 1894 [2]
- From 1920
- Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [3]
- Notes:
- [1] See Original Pottery List, L. 304, 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
- 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
- 17th or 19th century
- Period
- Edo period
- Accession Number
- F1894.16
- Artist
- Doraku
- Restrictions & Rights
- CC0
- Type
- Vessel
- Medium
- Raku-type clay with Black Raku glaze; gold lacquer repairs
- Dimensions
- H x Diam: 13.4 × 12 cm (5 1/4 × 4 3/4 in)
- Style
- Raku ware, unknown workshop
- Origin
- Kyoto or Sakai, Japan
- Related Online Resources
- Google Cultural Institute
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- Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Collection
- Topic
- lacquer
- ceramic
- Raku ware
- Edo period (1615 - 1868)
- tea
- Japan
- Japanese Art
- lacquer repair
- Charles Lang Freer collection
- Record ID
- fsg_F1894.16
