Object Details
- Description
- Tea ceremony freshwater jar (mizusashi [JPN]). Cylindrical. Gold lacquer repairs.
- Clay: coarse, grayish; Raku type.
- Glaze: brilliant, of mingled red-browns and olive; iridescent. Red Raku glaze, reduced in areas to gray.
- Decoration: in white slip, under glaze: "auspicious clouds."
- Inscription: in white slip, under glaze. Cipher (kao), incised in base.
- Inscriptions
- Inscription reads: "Good omen, grass, year by year, thrive --
- Inscription reads: "Good omen, grass, year by year, thrive --
- Provenance
- To 1901
- Siegfried Bing (1838-1905), Paris to 1901 [1]
- From 1901 to 1919
- Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Siegfried Bing, Paris in 1901
- From 1920
- Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [3]
- Notes:
- [1] See Original Pottery List, L. 939, 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
- Special Exhibition of Japanese Pottery (October 29, 1971 to October 31, 1971)
- Previous custodian or owner
- Siegfried Bing (1838-1905) (C.L. Freer source)
- Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)
- Data Source
- Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
- Artist
- Incised mark of Kawakami Fuhaku 川上不白 (1719-1807)
- Date
- 19th century
- Period
- Edo period
- Credit Line
- Gift of Charles Lang Freer
- Medium
- Earthenware with red and white slips under clear lead glaze; gold lacquer repairs
- Dimensions
- H x Diam: 16.6 × 15.3 cm (6 9/16 × 6 in)
- Style
- Raku ware, unknown workshop
- Type
- Vessel
