Object Details
- Description
- Tea caddy (chaire); pear-shaped pitcher form; loop handle. Ivory cover. String-cut foot, slightly concave base.
- Clay: fine, gray, ruddy near glaze.
- Glaze: tea-leaf green of dull lustre, splashed in yellow, deep brown, dull black and brilliant black. Interior unglazed.
- Weight: 90.36 grams.
- Provenance
- 1901
- Y. Fujita and Company, 1901 [1]
- From 1901 to 1919
- Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Y. Fujita and 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. 1072, 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
- Previous custodian or owner
- Y. Fujita and Company (C.L. Freer source)
- Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)
- Data Source
- Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
- Date
- 1700-1860
- Period
- Edo period
- Credit Line
- Gift of Charles Lang Freer
- Medium
- Stoneware with iron and ash glazes; ivory lid
- Dimensions
- H x Diam: 8 × 6.8 cm (3 1/8 × 2 11/16 in)
- Style
- Takatori ware
- Type
- Vessel
