Object Details
- Description
- Tea-bowl, ovoidal; deep flaring foot, notched.
- Clay: hard, dense, whitish.
- Glaze: lustrous warm cream, finely crackled.
- Decorations: floral, enameled in colors and gold, over glaze.
- Seal: Mimpei.
- Marks
- Seal: Mimpei
- Label
- The flowering autumnal plants on this tea bowl continue an ancient motif favored on enamel decorated Kyoto and Kyoto-style ceramics, as well as on decorated lacquer and textiles. The decorator was skilled at naturalistic rendering of the chrysanthemums, pampas grass, and other plants.
- Provenance
- To 1893
- Tozo Takayanagi, New York to 1893 [1]
- From 1893 to 1919
- Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Tozo Takayanagi in 1893 [2]
- From 1920
- Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [3]
- Notes:
- [1] See Original Pottery List, L. 300, 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
- Tea Bowls in Bloom: Botanical Decoration on Tea Ceremony Ceramics (February 3 to July 15, 2007)
- Previous custodian or owner
- Takayanagi Tozo 高柳陶造 (C.L. Freer source)
- Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)
- Data Source
- Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
- Artist
- Kashu Mimpei (1796-1871)
- Date
- mid 19th century
- Period
- Edo period
- Credit Line
- Gift of Charles Lang Freer
- Medium
- Stoneware with enamels over clear colorless glaze
- Dimensions
- H x Diam: 7.6 x 12.4 cm (3 x 4 7/8 in)
- Style
- Mimpei ware
- Type
- Vessel
