Object Details
- Description
- Tea caddy (chaire [Jpn]), three-sided. Ivory cover.
- Named "Tsuri Okina."
- Clay: coarse, dark brown. String-cut foot (right hand); slightly concave base.
- Glaze: successive olive-brown flecked with white, over copper-brown and black, over thin brown wash. Uppermost glaze underfired. Interior unglazed.
- Provenance
- To 1901
- Yamanaka & Company, 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. 1023, 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)
- 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
- 1600-1640
- Period
- Momoyama or Edo period
- Credit Line
- Gift of Charles Lang Freer
- Medium
- Stoneware with iron wash and rice-straw-ash and iron glazes; ivory lid
- Dimensions
- H x Diam: 8.6 × 6.2 cm (3 3/8 × 2 7/16 in)
- Style
- Agano or Yatsushiro ware
- Type
- Vessel
