Tea bowl with design of seedling pines, named Okina
Object Details
- Description
- Tea-bowl, cylindrical, low foot.
- Clay: dense, grayish, Raku type.
- Glaze: brilliant black.
- Decoration: seedling pines (wakamatsu [Jpn]) lightly incised in paste.
- Provenance
- To 1897
- Bunkio Matsuki (1867-1940), Boston, to 1897 [1]
- From 1897 to 1919
- Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Bunkio Matsuki in 1897 [2]
- From 1920
- Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [3]
- Notes:
- [1] See Original Pottery List, 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
- Freer’s Global Network: Artists, Collectors, and Dealers (October 15, 2022 - ongoing)
- Previous custodian or owner
- Bunkio Matsuki 松木文恭 (1867-1940) (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
- 19th century
- Period
- Edo period
- Accession Number
- F1897.36
- Artist
- Attributed to Okazaki Bunzan 岡崎文山
- Originally attributed to Joshin
- Restrictions & Rights
- CC0
- Type
- Vessel
- Medium
- Stoneware with Black Raku type glaze
- Dimensions
- H x Diam: 8.2 × 10.8 cm (3 1/4 × 4 1/4 in)
- Style
- Raku ware, unknown workshop
- Origin
- Kyoto, Kyoto prefecture, Japan
- On View
- Freer Gallery 09: Freer’s Global Network
- Related Online Resources
- Google Cultural Institute
- See more items in
- Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Collection
- Topic
- ceramic
- pine tree
- Raku ware
- Edo period (1615 - 1868)
- tea
- Japan
- stoneware
- Japanese Art
- Charles Lang Freer collection
- Record ID
- fsg_F1897.36
