Tea ceremony water jar, unknown Raku ware workshop
Object Details
- Description
- Water jar, barrel-shaped. Pottery cover.
- Clay: dense, sonorous. Raku type.
- Glaze: grayish-olive mottled with orange, over yellow; broad overflow of dark green and black. Red Raku, misfired to gray, except for inside of lid.
- Inscription: incised on base.
- Inscriptions
- Incised on base.
- Provenance
- To 1899
- Yamanaka & Company, New York to 1899 [1]
- From 1899 to 1919
- Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Yamanaka & Company in 1899 [2]
- From 1920
- Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [3]
- Notes:
- [1] See Original Pottery List, L. 82, 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
- 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
- 19th century
- Period
- Edo period
- Accession Number
- F1899.5a-b
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Type
- Vessel
- Medium
- Earthenware with iron glaze over red Raku glaze (red slip under clear glaze)
- Dimensions
- H x W: 18.2 x 16.7 cm (7 3/16 x 6 9/16 in)
- Style
- Raku ware, unknown workshop
- Origin
- Japan
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- Google Cultural Institute
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- Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Collection
- Topic
- ceramic
- Raku ware
- Edo period (1615 - 1868)
- water
- tea
- Japan
- earthenware
- brown and black glaze
- Japanese Art
- Charles Lang Freer collection
- Record ID
- fsg_F1899.5a-b
