Sake bottle, Bizen ware, Imbe type
Object Details
- Description
- Sake bottle (tokkuri), pear-shaped, with slender tapering neck.
- Clay: fired reddish brown.
- Glaze: lustrous, reddish-brown, clouded with black and olive, flecked with yellow.
- Provenance
- To 1897
- Charles A. Dana (1819-1897), New York to 1897 [1]
- From 1898 to 1919
- Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased at auction, the Dana Collection Sale, American Art Galleries, New York February 24-26, 1898, no. 22 [2]
- From 1920
- Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [3]
- Notes:
- [1] See Original Pottery List, L. 134, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives.
- [2] See note 1. See also, Curatorial Remark 8, Louise Cort, July 18, 2005, in the object record.
- [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
- Japanese Ceramics (June 22, 1982 to September 27, 1982)
- Japanese Ceramics (July 15, 1980 to June 21, 1982)
- Previous custodian or owner
- Charles A. Dana (1819-1897)
- Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)
- Credit Line
- Gift of Charles Lang Freer
- Data Source
- Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
- Date
- late 17th-early 18th century
- Period
- Edo period
- Accession Number
- F1898.34
- Restrictions & Rights
- CC0
- Type
- Vessel
- Medium
- Stoneware with red slip and wood-ash glaze
- Dimensions
- H x Diam: 21.9 × 11 cm (8 5/8 × 4 5/16 in)
- Style
- Bizen ware, Imbe type
- Origin
- Imbe, Okayama prefecture, Japan
- Related Online Resources
- Google Cultural Institute
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- Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Collection
- Topic
- ceramic
- Bizen ware, Imbe type
- Edo period (1615 - 1868)
- wine
- sake
- Japan
- stoneware
- Japanese Art
- Charles Lang Freer collection
- Record ID
- fsg_F1898.34
