Object Details
- Description
- Tea caddy (chaire), cylindrical with two blind loop handles. Ivory cover.
- Clay: hard, grayish, lustrous brown on surface.
- Glaze: thin wash of metallic brown; overflow of olive-brown edged with brilliant black. Interior glazed.
- Label
- By the second quarter of the 17th century, Takatori wares from the Kuroda domain of Chikuzen in northern Kyushu came under the prevailing aesthetic influence of the tea master Kobori Enshu. While based on Chinese prototypes, this classic "Enshu Takatori" tea caddy shows the sleek contours and complex glazes that Enshu preferred.
- Provenance
- To 1901
- Yamanaka & Company, New York, NY, to 1901 [1]
- From 1901 to 1919
- Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Yamanaka & Company in 1901 [2]
- From 1920
- Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [3]
- Notes:
- [1] See Original Pottery List, L. 1021, 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
- Cornucopia: Ceramics of Southern Japan (December 19, 2009 to January 9, 2011)
- Games, Contests and Artful Play in Japan (March 19 to October 23, 2005)
- Garden Potteries and Official Kilns: Clan-Sponsored Ceramics in the Edo Period (January 16, 1986 to November 3, 1986)
- Japanese and Chinese Lacquer (September 22, 1982 to June 30, 1983)
- Japanese Lacquer (April 16, 1979 to October 8, 1980)
- 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
- late 17th-early 18th century
- Period
- Edo period
- Credit Line
- Gift of Charles Lang Freer
- Medium
- Stoneware with iron glaze; ivory lid
- Dimensions
- H x Diam: 9.5 × 5.6 cm (3 3/4 × 2 3/16 in)
- Style
- Takatori ware
- Type
- Vessel
