Object Details
- Description
- Buff clay. Hand formed. Irregular vertical faceting and gouged marks. Mouth opening on flat top cut out in shape of open folding gan. Chocolate brown iron glaze, wiped off base. Inside glazed. Red lacquer repairs to firing cracks in base.
- Provenance
- To 1901
- Bunkio Matsuki (1867-1940), Boston, to 1901 [1]
- From 1901 to 1919
- Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Bunkio Matsuki in 1901 [2]
- From 1920
- Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [2]
- Notes:
- [1]
- See Pottery List, L. 1065, 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
- Japanese Ceramics from Seto and Mino (January 19, 1996 to August 5, 2001)
- Garden Potteries and Official Kilns: Clan-Sponsored Ceramics in the Edo Period (January 16, 1986 to November 3, 1986)
- Japanese Fans (April 6, 1984 to October 18, 1984)
- Fans (May 18, 1980 to October 13, 1981)
- 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
- 1840-1860
- Period
- Edo period
- Credit Line
- Gift of Charles Lang Freer
- Medium
- Stoneware with iron glaze; ivory lid
- Dimensions
- H x Diam: 8.1 × 6.1 cm (3 3/16 × 2 3/8 in)
- Style
- Rakurakuen ware
- Type
- Vessel
