Object Details
- Description
- Buff clay. Basket-weave pattern incised in three equidistant places around everted rim, alternating with sketchily incised lines splashed with iron and copper sulfate pigments; incised design of plum blossom and branches in botttom traced with copper and iron. Light yellow ash glaze, opaque and granular, covering base except for circualar scar from clay firing ring inside foot rim.
- Provenance
- To 1905
- H. R. Yamamato, to 1905 [1]
- From 1905 to 1919
- Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from H. R. Yamamoto in 1905 [2]
- From 1920
- Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [3]
- Notes:
- [1] See Original Pottery List, L. 1421, 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
- Japanese Ceramics from Seto and Mino (January 19, 1996 to August 5, 2001)
- The Glazed Ceramic Tradition of Mino and Seto Wares (April 26, 1985 to January 13, 1986)
- Previous custodian or owner
- H. R. Yamamoto (C.L. Freer source)
- Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)
- Data Source
- Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
- Date
- 1580-1600
- Period
- Momoyama period
- Credit Line
- Gift of Charles Lang Freer
- Medium
- Stoneware with ash glaze and copper and iron pigments
- Dimensions
- H x Diam: 5.1 × 15.9 cm (2 × 6 1/4 in)
- Style
- Mino ware, Yellow Seto type
- Type
- Vessel
