Object Details
- Description
- Tea-bowl with spreading foot and straight rim. Several cracks running down from rim: gold lacquer repairs on rim.
- Clay: medium grayish white pottery, buff on surface.
- Glaze: thick tan with large crackle, none under the foot. Crackle stained intentionally.
- Decoration: three swallows painted in underglaze cobalt.
- Provenance
- To 1897
- Yamanaka & Company, New York to 1897 [1]
- From 1897 to 1919
- Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Yamanaka & Company in 1897 [2]
- From 1920
- Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [3]
- Notes:
- [1] See Original Pottery List, L. 464, 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
- Feathered Ink (August 27, 2022 to February 20, 2023)
- Previous custodian or owner
- Yamanaka and Co. 山中商会 (1917-1965) (C.L. Freer source)
- Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)
- Data Source
- Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
- Date
- mid 19th century
- Period
- Edo period
- Credit Line
- Gift of Charles Lang Freer
- Medium
- Stoneware with cobalt decoration under crackled glaze
- Dimensions
- H x Diam: 8.9 × 12.7 cm (3 1/2 × 5 in)
- Style
- Kyoto-related ware
- Type
- Vessel
