Object Details
- Description
- Tea ceremony water jar (mizusashi), large, deep, irregularly quadrilateral; four heavy stump feet; corrugated. Lacquer cover.
- Clay: hard, dense, sonorous. Brown.
- Glaze: clear glaze over white slip. Clear glaze extends over feet. Inside: hatched with radiating lines.
- Provenance
- To 1901
- Yamanaka & Company, New York, NY, to 1901 [1]
- From 1901 to 1919
- Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Yamanaka & Company in 1901 [2]
- From 1920
- Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [3]
- Notes:
- [1] See Original Pottery List, L. 1057, 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
- Cornucopia: Ceramics of Southern Japan (December 19, 2009 to January 9, 2011)
- 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
- 17th century
- Period
- Edo period
- Accession Number
- F1901.155a-b
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Type
- Vessel
- Medium
- Stoneware with rice-straw-ash glaze; lacquered wooden lid
- Dimensions
- H x W x D (Assembled): 15.9 x 25.7 x 22.8 cm (6 1/4 x 10 1/8 x 9 in)
- Style
- Hagi ware
- Origin
- Yamaguchi 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
- lacquer
- ceramic
- Hagi ware
- Edo period (1615 - 1868)
- water
- tea
- Japan
- stoneware
- Japanese Art
- Charles Lang Freer collection
- Record ID
- fsg_F1901.155a-b
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ye395ce0f8e-1215-4dac-ba61-4c96a9e1f4e2
