Tea ceremony water jar with matching lid

Object Details

Description: Tea-ceremony water jar (mizusashi), quadrilateral; two loop handles. Pottery cover.; Clay: hard, light gray. String-cut base.; Glaze: clear with green tints, crackled.; Decoration: modeled running-water lines in paste; painted brown, and blue, under glaze; reeds and water.
Provenance: Mr. Funahashi, Kyoto [1]; To 1903; Bunkio Matsuki (1867-1940), Boston, to 1903 [2]; From 1903 to 1919; Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Bunkio Matsuki in 1903 [3]; From 1920; Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [4]; Notes:; [1] Curatorial Remarks, Louise A. Cort, 1986: Freer acquired, through Matsuki, five pieces from the Funahashi collection (F1903.275--F1903.279). An undated "List of Shipment" from Matsuki (Matsuki letter no. 30) gives the following: "Following five important pottery are from the sale of Late Mr. Funahashi of Kioto famous wholesale silk dealer for many generation. The sale was under the management of Mr. Shinsuke Hayashi from whom your great Sotatsu screen came."; [2] See Original Pottery List, L. 1278, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives.; [3] See note 2.; [4] 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: Funahashi; Bunkio Matsuki 松木文恭 (1867-1940) (C.L. Freer source); Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)

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Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery

Topic: ceramic; Edo period (1615 - 1868); water; tea; Japan; stoneware; Japanese Art; Seto ware, Ofuke type; Charles Lang Freer collection

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