Tea caddy, katatsuki type
Object Details
- Description
- Clay: hard, resonant, gray.
- Glaze: brilliant red-brown clouded with black; splashed with green-gray, yellow, and white. Interior glazed.
- Provenance
- To 1898
- Yamanaka & Company, to 1898 [1]
- From 1898 to 1919
- Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Yamanaka & Company in 1898 [2]
- From 1920
- Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [3]
- Notes:
- [1] See Original Pottery List, L. 732, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives. The majority of Charles Lang Freer’s purchases from Yamanaka & Company were made at its New York branch. Yamanaka & Company maintained branch offices, at various times, in Boston, Chicago, London, Peking, Shanghai, Osaka, Nara, and Kyoto. During the summer, the company also maintained seasonal locations in Newport, Bar Harbor, and Atlantic City.
- [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)
- Previous custodian or owner
- Yamanaka and Co. 山中商会 (1917-1965) (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
- 1635-1660
- Period
- Edo period
- Accession Number
- F1898.469a-b
- Restrictions & Rights
- CC0
- Type
- Vessel
- Medium
- Stoneware with iron and ash glazes; ivory lid
- Dimensions
- H x Diam: 7.8 × 5.4 cm (3 1/16 × 2 1/8 in)
- Style
- Yatsushiro or Shodai ware
- Origin
- Kumamoto prefecture, Japan
- Related Online Resources
- Google Cultural Institute
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- Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Collection
- Topic
- ceramic
- ivory
- Shodai ware
- Yatsushiro ware
- Edo period (1615 - 1868)
- tea
- Japan
- stoneware
- Japanese Art
- Charles Lang Freer collection
- Record ID
- fsg_F1898.469a-b
