Object Details
- Description
- Daitokuji Goki type. Tea bowl, deep ovoidal; spreading concave foot.
- Clay: hard, dense, ringing.
- Glaze: a rich, yellow slip partly covering the brown biscuit - the whole covered by a thin brilliant transparent glaze.
- 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. 1113, 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
- Boxed In: Japanese Ceramics and Their Storage Boxes (September 23, 1982 to February 17, 1983)
- 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
- 1630-1660
- Period
- Edo period
- Credit Line
- Gift of Charles Lang Freer
- Medium
- Porcelain with ash glaze
- Dimensions
- H x Diam: 9.1 x 13.9 cm (3 9/16 x 5 1/2 in)
- Style
- Arita ware
- Type
- Vessel
