Satsuma ware tea caddy
Object Details
- Description
- Tea caddy (chaire), elongated pear-shape. Ivory cover.
- Clay: hard, vibrant, grayish-white.
- Glaze: gray-white and dark yellow under glaze; heavy overflow of yellow-olive and seal-brown, flecked with white and blue. Red-brown wash on lower body.
- Weighed by Matsumura Makiko: 110.49 grams.
- Brown, white, and black glazes applied in layers. Interior glazed. String-cut base (wheel revolving counter-clockwise).
- Provenance
- To 1898
- Yamanaka & Company, New York 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. 733, 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)
- Rusticity Refined: Kyoto Ceramics by Ninsei (March 19 to October 23, 2005)
- Garden Potteries and Official Kilns: Clan-Sponsored Ceramics in the Edo Period (January 16, 1986 to November 3, 1986)
- 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
- 17th century
- Period
- Edo period
- Accession Number
- F1898.470a-b
- Restrictions & Rights
- CC0
- Type
- Vessel
- Medium
- Stoneware with iron wash, rice-straw-ash and iron glazes; ivory lid
- Dimensions
- H x Diam: 8.5 × 5.9 cm (3 3/8 × 2 5/16 in)
- Style
- Satsuma ware, Old Chosa type
- Origin
- Tateno kiln group, Uto or Osato kiln, Kagoshima prefecture, Japan
- Related Online Resources
- Google Cultural Institute
- See more items in
- Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Collection
- Topic
- ceramic
- ivory
- Satsuma ware, Old Chosa type
- Edo period (1615 - 1868)
- tea
- Japan
- stoneware
- iron wash
- rice-straw-ash glaze
- Japanese Art
- Charles Lang Freer collection
- Record ID
- fsg_F1898.470a-b
