Object Details
- Description
- Light gray clay. Incised and stamped motifs accented with underglaze cobalt. Oval potter's seal "Shuntai" impressed on base to left of center. Clear glaze, gray-green in tone, crackled and stained brown by sake. Foot unglazed.
- Marks
- Shuntai 春岱
- Shuntai 春岱
- 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. 81, 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
- Exhibition History
- Japanese Ceramics from Seto and Mino (January 19, 1996 to August 5, 2001)
- The Glazed Ceramic Tradition of Mino and Seto Wares (April 26, 1985 to January 13, 1986)
- 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
- Artist
- Kato Soshiro (1802-1877)
- Date
- 1831-1868
- Period
- Edo period
- Credit Line
- Gift of Charles Lang Freer
- Medium
- Stoneware with cobalt pigment under clear green-toned glaze
- Dimensions
- H x Diam: 28.4 × 14.5 cm (11 3/16 × 5 11/16 in)
- Style
- Ofuke or Seto ware
- Type
- Vessel
