Object Details
- Description
- Tea bowl, hakeme type, named Oimatsu, deep ovoidal; heavy foot. Three spur marks on interior.
- Clay: hard, coarse gray, speckled with black.
- Glaze: brushed with white, slip under glaze; clear glaze; greenish-brown pool on interior. Foot unglazed.
- Provenance
- To 1898
- Bunkio Matsuki (1867-1940), Boston, to 1898 [1]
- From 1898 to 1919
- Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Bunkio Matsuki in 1898 [2]
- From 1920
- Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [3]
- Notes:
- [1] See Original Pottery List, L. 443, 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
- 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
- 18th-mid 19th century
- Period
- Edo period
- Credit Line
- Gift of Charles Lang Freer
- Medium
- Stoneware with brushed white slip under clear glaze
- Dimensions
- H x Diam: 8.5 × 15.5 cm (3 3/8 × 6 1/8 in)
- Style
- Possibly Rakuzan ware
- Type
- Vessel
