Object Details
- Description
- Tea bowl, almost cylindrical with straight sides tapering slightly inward and high, square-cut foot.
- Name: Ochiba [Jpn].
- Clay: gray stoneware, medium texture, fired reddish brown.
- Glaze: yellowish buff and iron brown with rust-like patches and some greenish flow. Foot unglazed.
- Decoration: glaze only.
- Label
- The potter applied three different glazes to achieve a patchwork effect popular on ceramics, textiles, and lacquered objects of the early seventeenth century. The bowl's name, Fallen Leaves, refers to this mottled coloration-or perhaps to the inspired addition of the "finger-painted" spots. Freer appreciated this "very beautiful specimen."
- Provenance
- To 1897
- Bunkio Matsuki (1867-1940), Boston, to 1897 [1]
- From 1897 to 1919
- Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Bunkio Matsuki in 1897 [2]
- From 1920
- Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [3]
- Notes:
- [1] See Original Pottery List, 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)
- Freer and Tea: 100 Years of The Book of Tea (November 19, 2005 to May 29, 2006)
- Japanese Art (November 7, 1986 to July 19, 1988)
- Japanese and Chinese Lacquer (September 22, 1982 to June 30, 1983)
- Japanese Lacquer (April 16, 1979 to October 8, 1980)
- Japanese Ceramics (April 11, 1978 to January 17, 1980)
- Previous custodian or owner
- Bunkio Matsuki 松木文恭 (1867-1940) (C.L. Freer source)
- Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)
- Data Source
- Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
- Date
- 1630-1650
- Period
- Edo period
- Credit Line
- Gift of Charles Lang Freer
- Medium
- Stoneware with iron, rice-straw-ash, and wood-ash glazes
- Dimensions
- H x Diam: 8.1 × 10.9 cm (3 3/16 × 4 5/16 in)
- Style
- Takatori ware
- Type
- Vessel
