Karatsu ware tea-ceremony water jar, Takeo Karatsu type
Object Details
- Description
- Water jar, bulbous lower body, hair crack down one side.
- Clay: medium stoneware, fired brown.
- Glaze: dull green with one blue patch, over white slip
- Decoration: combed into slip
- Provenance
- To 1901
- Siegfried Bing (1838-1905), Paris to 1901 [1]
- From 1901 to 1919
- Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Siegfried Bing, Paris in 1901
- From 1920
- Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [3]
- Notes:
- [1] See Original Pottery List, L. 937, 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)
- The Idea of China in Japan: The Tea Ceremony in Japan (December 19, 1999 to June 11, 2000)
- Korean Influences on Japanese Slip-Decorated Ceramics (February 16, 1984 to November 9, 1984)
- Previous custodian or owner
- Siegfried Bing (1838-1905) (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
- 1650-1680
- Period
- Edo period
- Accession Number
- F1901.58a-b
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Type
- Vessel
- Medium
- Stoneware with white slip under copper-tinted glaze; lacquered wooden lid
- Dimensions
- H x Diam: 16.1 × 16.7 cm (6 5/16 × 6 9/16 in)
- Style
- Karatsu ware, Takeo Karatsu type
- Origin
- Takeo, Saga prefecture, Japan
- Related Online Resources
- Google Cultural Institute
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- Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Collection
- Topic
- lacquer
- ceramic
- Karatsu ware, Takeo Karatsu type
- Edo period (1615 - 1868)
- water
- tea
- Japan
- stoneware
- Japanese Art
- Charles Lang Freer collection
- Record ID
- fsg_F1901.58a-b
