Square bottle with design of Chinese-style landscape
Object Details
- Description
- Square bottle with rounded shoulder, short neck and slightly arching base.
- Clay: coarse, fired glossy brown.
- Glaze: lustrious gray with fine crackle; covers base except at corners.
- Decoration: Landscape painted in cream slip.
- Provenance
- To 1916
- Yamanaka & Company, New York to 1916 [1]
- From 1916 to 1919
- Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Yamanaka & Company, New York in 1916 [2]
- From 1920
- The Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [3]
- Notes:
- [1] See Original Pottery List, L. 2482, 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 or Meiji era
- Accession Number
- F1916.425
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Type
- Vessel
- Medium
- Stoneware with white slip under translucent glaze
- Dimensions
- H x W: 33.1 x 16.6 cm (13 1/16 x 6 9/16 in)
- Style
- Hanno ware
- Origin
- Hanno, Saitama prefecture, Japan
- Related Online Resources
- Google Cultural Institute
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- Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Collection
- Topic
- ceramic
- landscape
- Hanno ware
- Edo period (1615 - 1868)
- Meiji era (1868 - 1912)
- Japan
- stoneware
- Japanese Art
- Charles Lang Freer collection
- Record ID
- fsg_F1916.425
