Object Details
- Artist
- Style of Nonomura Ninsei (active ca. 1646-77)
- Description
- Tea caddy (chaire [Jpn])
- Ivory cover. String-cut base.
- Clay: dense, gray-white.
- Glaze: clear, crackled, over purplish/ iron wash; splash overflow of clear, appearing whitish.
- Decoration: dense vertical brush strokes on shoulder, broad band around neck, in iron under glaze.
- Provenance
- To 1901
- R. Wagner, Berlin, to 1901 [1]
- From 1901 to 1919
- Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from R. Wagner in 1901 [2]
- From 1920
- Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [3]
- Notes:
- [1] See Original Pottery List, L. 897, 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
- R. Wagner (C.L. Freer source)
- Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)
- Credit Line
- Gift of Charles Lang Freer
- 19th century
- Period
- Edo period
- Accession Number
- F1901.42a-b
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Type
- Vessel
- Medium
- Stoneware with iron decoration under wood-ash glaze; ivory lid
- Dimensions
- H x Diam: 5.6 × 6.3 cm (2 3/16 × 2 1/2 in)
- Style
- Kyoto ware
- Origin
- Kyoto, Kyoto prefecture, Japan
- Related Online Resources
- Google Cultural Institute
- See more items in
- Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Collection
- Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
- Topic
- ceramic
- ivory
- Kyoto ware
- Edo period (1615 - 1868)
- tea
- Japan
- stoneware
- Japanese Art
- Charles Lang Freer collection
- Record ID
- fsg_F1901.42a-b
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ye384272976-d138-49e1-a2a2-1ec69a327972
