Object Details
- Description
- Small tea-ceremony water jar (mizusashi) with black lacquer cover.
- Clay: hard, grayish. Lustrous brown on surface.
- Glaze: brilliant yellow-brown, splashed with fawn streaked with blue, crackled.
- Mark: incised lines on base.
- Marks
- incised lines on base.
- Provenance
- To 1909
- Yamanaka & Company, Kyoto, to 1909 [1]
- From 1909 to 1919
- Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Yamanaka & Company in 1909 [2]
- From 1920
- Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [3]
- Notes:
- [1] See Original Pottery List, L. 2054, 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
- 18th-19th century
- Period
- Edo period
- Accession Number
- F1909.358a-b
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Type
- Vessel
- Medium
- Stoneware with iron and rice-straw ash glazes; lacquered wooden lid
- Dimensions
- H x Diam: 13.7 x 12.9 cm (5 3/8 x 5 1/16 in)
- Style
- Satsuma ware, Ryumonji kilns
- Origin
- Ryumonji kilns, Kajiki, Kagoshima 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
- lacquer
- ceramic
- Ryumonji ware
- Edo period (1615 - 1868)
- water
- tea
- Japan
- stoneware
- Japanese Art
- Charles Lang Freer collection
- Record ID
- fsg_F1909.358a-b
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ye321e19432-3dcd-46b4-a91b-69397c5892da
