Tea caddy with two lugs, in Oribe style
Object Details
- Artist
- Mark of Soi (active early 17th century)
- Description
- Buff clay, darkened on surface by use. Concave base. Two lugs. White slip extending slightly below clear glaze. Under-glaze iron painted decoration over shoulder and much of body, showing brush strokes; on one side, flying geese and pattern resembling "tie-dyed" textile, painted in reserve; on opposite side, vertical faceting and incising. Potter's mark incised on base: ideogram for "well" (i). Inside unglazed.
- Marks
- Potter's mark incised on the base: ideogram for "well."
- Label
- Production of glazed stoneware ceramics within Kyoto is said to have begun in 1624, when a potter from Seto was brought to the city to set up a workshop. Early Kyoto ceramics imitated popular styles of tea utensils made in Seto and other regional kilns or imported from Korea. This tea caddy, decorated in the style of Oribe ware from Mino, bears on its base an incised mark of the Japanese character for "well." According to later texts, this mark was used by an early Kyoto potter named Soi. Because the printed information about such marks became the basis for nineteenth-century imitations, the date of this and other tea caddies bearing Soi's mark remains uncertain.
- Provenance
- To 1901
- Siegfried Bing (1838-1905), Paris to 1901 [1]
- From 1901 to 1919
- Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Siegfried Bing, Paris in 1901
- From 1920
- Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [3]
- Notes:
- [1] See Original Pottery List, L. 935, 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
- The Potter's Mark: Tea Ceramics and Their Makers (August 18, 2007 to February 24, 2008)
- Previous custodian or owner
- Siegfried Bing (1838-1905) (C.L. Freer source)
- Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)
- Credit Line
- Gift of Charles Lang Freer
- 1650-1675 or 1800-1830
- Period
- Edo period
- Accession Number
- F1901.56a-b
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Type
- Vessel
- Medium
- Stoneware with iron pigment under clear glaze
- Dimensions
- H x W x D: 8.2 x 4.7 x 4.7 cm (3 1/4 x 1 7/8 x 1 7/8 in)
- Style
- Kyoto ware
- Origin
- Kyoto, Kyoto 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
- goose
- Kyoto ware
- Seto ware
- Edo period (1615 - 1868)
- tea
- fungus
- Japan
- stoneware
- Japanese Art
- Charles Lang Freer collection
- Record ID
- fsg_F1901.56a-b
- Metadata Usage (text)
- Not determined
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ye370bd71aa-8282-462a-9411-07a256406042
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