Object Details
- Description
- Figure in tattered kimono leaning over a tub holding a staff and a drawstring bag.
- Clay: hard, resonant, buff.
- Glaze: brilliant brownish-gray, with underglaze iron details; brown crackle. Flesh parts in thin red wash, hair in dark iron wash.
- Provenance
- To 1899
- James Lord Bowes (1834-1899), England, to 1899 [1]
- Sale of the James Lord Bowes Collection, Liverpool, England, May 6, 1901 [2]
- To 1902
- James Tregaskis, London, to 1902 [3]
- From 1902 to 1919
- Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from James Tregaskis in 1902 [4]
- From 1920
- Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [5]
- Notes:
- [1] The collection of James Lord Bowes (1834-1899) was auctioned in Liverpool on May 6, 1901, and the catalogue is in the Freer Library [SI 3026] (see Curatorial Remark 5, Louise A. Cort, 1986, in the object record).
- [2] See note 1.
- [3] See Original Pottery List, L. 1162, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives.
- [4] See note 2.
- [5] 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
- James Lord Bowes (1834-1899)
- James Tregaskis (1850-1926) (C.L. Freer source)
- Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)
- Data Source
- Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
- Date
- 1850-1880
- Period
- Edo period or Meiji era
- Credit Line
- Gift of Charles Lang Freer
- Medium
- Stoneware with iron decoration under clear glaze; areas of iron wash
- Dimensions
- H x W x D: 18.5 x 13.5 x 11.4 cm (7 5/16 x 5 5/16 x 4 1/2 in)
- Style
- Probably Karatsu ware
- Type
- Sculpture
