Karatsu ware tea bowl
Object Details
- Description
- Tea bowl. Gold lacquer repairs.
- Clay: hard, grayish.
- Glaze: lustrous cream, with greenish, pinkish-brown, darker brown areas and stainings, brown crackle.
- Provenance
- To 1897
- Rufus E. Moore, New York to 1897 [1]
- From 1897 to 1919
- Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Rufus E. Moore in 1897 [2]
- From 1920
- Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [3]
- Notes:
- [1] See Original Pottery List, L. 389, 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
- Cornucopia: Ceramics of Southern Japan (December 19, 2009 to January 9, 2011)
- Parades: Freer Ceramics Installed by Gwyn Hanssen Pigott (November 4, 2006 to January 7, 2008)
- 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
- 1650-1800
- Period
- Edo period
- Accession Number
- F1897.18
- Restrictions & Rights
- CC0
- Type
- Vessel
- Medium
- Stoneware with clear, colorless glaze; gold lacquer repairs
- Dimensions
- H x Diam: 8 × 12.7 cm (3 1/8 × 5 in)
- Style
- Karatsu ware, Kenjo Karatsu related type
- Origin
- Saga prefecture, Japan
- Related Online Resources
- Google Cultural Institute
- See more items in
- Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Collection
- Topic
- lacquer
- ceramic
- Edo period (1615 - 1868)
- tea
- Japan
- stoneware
- Japanese Art
- lacquer repair
- Karatsu ware, Kenjo Karatsu type
- Charles Lang Freer collection
- Record ID
- fsg_F1897.18
