Bottle
Object Details
- Description
- Bottle, small bell-shaped.
- Clay: light-weight, hard, brownish.
- Glaze: thin wash of dark brown, with eccentric overflow of grayish-yellow and brilliant reddish-brown glaze.
- Mark: Shidoro [Jpn], in rectangular frame, on base to left.
- Marks
- Mark: Shidoro [Jpn], in rectangular frame, on base to left.
- Provenance
- To 1901
- Siegfried Bing (1838-1905), Paris, to 1901 [1]
- From 1901 to 1919
- Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Siegfried Bing in 1901 [2]
- From 1920
- Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [3]
- Notes:
- [1] See Original Pottery List, L. 960, 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
- 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
- 1800-1880
- Period
- Edo period or Meiji era
- Accession Number
- F1901.81
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Type
- Vessel
- Medium
- Stoneware with iron and ash glazes
- Dimensions
- H x Diam: 8 × 6.2 cm (3 1/8 × 2 7/16 in)
- Style
- Shidoro ware
- Origin
- Shizuoka prefecture, Japan
- Related Online Resources
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- Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Collection
- Topic
- ceramic
- Shidoro ware
- Edo period (1615 - 1868)
- Meiji era (1868 - 1912)
- Japan
- stoneware
- brown and black glaze
- wood-ash glaze
- Japanese Art
- Charles Lang Freer collection
- Record ID
- fsg_F1901.81
- Usage
- Not determined
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