Object Details
- Description
- Clay: dense, grayish. Dark brown on surface.
- Glaze: deep cream [white slip] on shoulder; neutral olive-yellow touched with brown, on lower body.
- Decoration: in red and blue enamel and gilding, over glaze. Cherry blossoms and petals scattered over shippo lattice.
- Provenance
- To 1899
- Bunkio Matsuki (1867-1940), Boston, to 1899 [1]
- From 1899 to 1919
- Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Bunkio Matsuki in 1899 [2]
- From 1920
- Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [3]
- Notes:
- [1] Undated folder sheet note. See Original Pottery List, L. 284, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives. See also, Provenance Remarks 1 and 2 in the object record.
- [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
- Untitled Exhibition, Japanese Art (October 3, 1947 to February 25, 1956)
- Untitled Exhibition, Japanese Art, 1946 (May 3, 1946 to October 6, 1947)
- 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
- mid 19th century
- Period
- Edo period
- Credit Line
- Gift of Charles Lang Freer
- Medium
- Stoneware with white slip under wood-ash glaze, enamels over glaze
- Dimensions
- H x Diam: 10.5 × 6.9 cm (4 1/8 × 2 11/16 in)
- Style
- Tamba ware
- Type
- Vessel
