Ryumonji ware sake flask
Object Details
- Description
- Tall, inverted pear-shape; flaring at foot. Cf. F1902.272
- Clay: hard, light gray.
- Glaze: luminous aubergine, mottled with copper-brown; overflow of light yellow-green, splashed with brilliant black.
- Provenance
- To 1896
- Rufus E. Moore, New York to 1896 [1]
- From 1896 to 1919
- Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Rufus E. Moore in 1896 [2]
- From 1920
- Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [3]
- Notes:
- [1] See Original Pottery List, L. 1, 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)
- The Peacock Room Comes to America [2011-2016] (April 9, 2011 to January 4, 2016)
- James McNeill Whistler at the Freer Gallery of Art—Whistler and the Landscape (May 11, 1984 to February 5, 1985)
- Chinese, Corean and Japanese Potteries (March 2 to 21, 1914)
- Previous custodian or owner
- Rufus E. Moore (1840-1918) (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-18th century
- Period
- Edo period
- Accession Number
- F1896.34
- Restrictions & Rights
- CC0
- Type
- Vessel
- Medium
- Stoneware with iron glazes
- Dimensions
- H x Diam: 37.5 × 21.2 cm (14 3/4 × 8 3/8 in)
- Style
- Satsuma ware, Ryumonji kilns
- Origin
- Ryumonji kilns, Kajiki, 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
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- Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Collection
- Topic
- ceramic
- Ryumonji ware
- Edo period (1615 - 1868)
- wine
- sake
- Japan
- stoneware
- Japanese Art
- Charles Lang Freer collection
- Record ID
- fsg_F1896.34
