Tea ceremony water jar

Object Details

Description: Light gray clay, brown on surface, stained under glaze. Two sculpted handles. Large swags of thick iron slip, poured onto inverted vessel, producing green tint where iron has dissolved into ash glaze; ash glaze, taking on yellowish tonality from stained body, is greenish where thick, crackled. Base glazed inside foot; Shino-type feldspathic glaze. Gold lacquer repairs to vertical firing cracks; chips on handles and lip.
Provenance: To 1898; Yamanaka & Company, 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. 49, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives. The majority of Charles Lang Freer’s purchases from Yamanaka & Company were made at its New York branch. Yamanaka & Company maintained branch offices, at various times, in Boston, Chicago, London, Peking, Shanghai, Osaka, Nara, and Kyoto. During the summer, the company also maintained seasonal locations in Newport, Bar Harbor, and Atlantic City.; [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: Yamanaka and Co. 山中商会 (1917-1965) (C.L. Freer source); Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)

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Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery

Topic: lacquer; ceramic; Ofuke ware; Edo period (1615 - 1868); water; tea; Japan; stoneware; slip; Japanese Art; lacquer repair; Charles Lang Freer collection

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