Object Details
- Description
- Jar, ovoid with slight lip; thick, uneven flat foot; gold lacquer repairs.
- Clay: coarse stoneware, fired dark reddish brown.
- Glaze: medium gray with fine crackle; very patchy outside, some on foot; smooth and uniform inside.
- Decoration: grass tufts sketchily painted underglaze in iron.
- Label
- This jar represents the earliest type of iron-decorated stoneware made at the Karatsu kilns. Immigrant Korean potters, who set up these kilns, introduced both vessel forms and simple decoration associated with utilitarian wares made at provincial Korean kilns. Small storage vessels like this one, supplied with lacquered lids, were used as tea utensils.
- Provenance
- To 1898
- Rufus E. Moore, New York to 1898 [1]
- From 1898 to 1919
- Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Rufus E. Moore in 1898 [2]
- From 1920
- Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [3]
- Notes:
- [1] See Original Pottery List, L. 196, 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)
- Tea Bowls in Bloom: Botanical Decoration on Tea Ceremony Ceramics (February 3 to July 15, 2007)
- Previous custodian or owner
- Rufus E. Moore (1840-1918) (C.L. Freer source)
- Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)
- Data Source
- Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
- Date
- 1596-1615
- Period
- Momoyama period
- Credit Line
- Gift of Charles Lang Freer
- Medium
- Stoneware with iron pigment under ash glaze; gold lacquer repairs
- Dimensions
- H x Diam: 13.3 × 15.6 cm (5 1/4 × 6 1/8 in)
- Style
- Karatsu ware, E-Karatsu type
- Type
- Vessel
