Object Details
- Description
- Water jar (mizusashi), oval shape with unevenly indented sides, recessed base unglazed in center; gold lacquer repairs.
- Clay: medium stoneware fired reddish brown.
- Glaze: transparent slightly milky grey over white slip.
- Decoration: very few grasses painted in underglaze iron.
- Provenance
- To 1902
- Yamanaka & Company, New York, NY, to 1902 [1]
- From 1902 to 1919
- Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Yamanaka & Company in 1902 [2]
- From 1920
- Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [3]
- Notes:
- [1] See Original Pottery List, L. 1211, 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
- 1780-1860
- Period
- Edo period
- Accession Number
- F1902.239a-b
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Type
- Vessel
- Medium
- Stoneware with white slip and iron pigment under feldspathic glaze
- Dimensions
- H x Diam: 16.7 × 17.8 cm (6 9/16 × 7 in)
- Style
- Karatsu ware, E-Karatsu type
- Origin
- Saga prefecture, Japan
- Related Online Resources
- Google Cultural Institute
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- Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Collection
- Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
- Topic
- ceramic
- Karatsu ware, E-karatsu type
- Edo period (1615 - 1868)
- water
- tea
- grass
- Japan
- stoneware
- Japanese Art
- Charles Lang Freer collection
- Record ID
- fsg_F1902.239a-b
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ye39e1d4542-38c7-4dff-ab65-8956ec1d62b8
