Object Details
- Description
- Gohon-style tea bowl with notched footrim. Light crack on side.
- Clay: fine, buff colored.
- Glaze: glossy, gray with faint yellowish buff tinges; dirty brownish areas inside.
- Impressed mark: Akashi [JPN], in rectangular frame, inside footrim to right.
- Marks
- Impressed mark: Akashi [JPN], in rectangular frame, inside footrim to right.
- 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. 860, 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
- 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
- 19th century
- Period
- Edo period
- Credit Line
- Gift of Charles Lang Freer
- Medium
- Stoneware with clear ash glaze
- Dimensions
- H x Diam: 7.8 × 12 cm (3 1/16 × 4 3/4 in)
- Style
- Akashi ware
- Type
- Vessel
