Shigaraki ware tea-leaf storage jar

Object Details

Description: Tea-leaf storage jar (chatsubo). Jar, tall ovoid, with five small loop handles.; Clay: dense, light gray.; Glaze: white, with faint pinkish and greenish casts, merging into dark brownish-pink, thickly speckled with white; crackled.
Provenance: To 1898; Yamanaka & Company, New York to 1898 [1]; From 1898 to 1919; Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Yamanaka & Company in 1898 [2]; From 1920; Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [3]; Notes:; [1] See Original Pottery List, L. 18, 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: Rinpa Screens (February 25, 2023 to February 24, 2024); Storage Jars (March 15, 2014 to June 28, 2015); Storage Jars of Asia (October 29, 2000 to March 10, 2002); Untitled Exhibition, Japanese Art (October 3, 1947 to February 25, 1956); Untitled Exhibition, Japanese Art, 1946 (May 3, 1946 to October 6, 1947); Japanese Paintings and Pottery (May 2, 1923 to December 8, 1941)
Previous custodian or owner: Yamanaka and Co. 山中商会 (1917-1965) (C.L. Freer source); Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)

Related Online Resources: Google Cultural Institute
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Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery

Topic: ceramic; Shigaraki ware; Edo period (1615 - 1868); tea; Japan; stoneware; Japanese Art; Charles Lang Freer collection

GUID (Link to Original Record): http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ye303c3095a-784b-4ed5-969b-cb3f48e1f2ae