Object Details
- Description
- Sake flask (heishi [JPN]), tall inverted pear-shape; flaring at foot. Cf. F1896.34.
- Clay: hard, dense, light gray.
- Glaze: luminous aubergine mottled with copper-brown; thin overflow of light yellow-green, splashed with brilliant black.
- Provenance
- To 1902
- Bunkio Matsuki (1867-1940), Boston, to 1902 [1]
- From 1902 to 1919
- Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Bunkio Matsuki in 1902 [2]
- From 1920
- Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [2]
- Notes:
- [1]
- See Original Pottery List, L. 1111, 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
- 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
- 17th-18th century
- Period
- Edo period
- Credit Line
- Gift of Charles Lang Freer
- Medium
- Stoneware with iron and ash glazes
- Dimensions
- H x Diam: 37.5 × 21.2 cm (14 3/4 × 8 3/8 in)
- Style
- Satsuma ware
- Type
- Vessel
