Object Details
- Description
- Tea caddy (chaire) low broad from; unglazed foot recessed; ivory cover.
- Clay: coarse gray stoneware.
- Glaze: brown with two areas of lavendar mottling; crackled.
- Decoration: a few lines and spots of unglaze iron around the shoulder.
- The lid that came with this tea caddy never belonged to it; it is too large and the wrong shape.
- Label
- Rice-straw ash in the glaze created the opalescent blue effect. High heat during firing slightly softened the form.
- Provenance
- To 1905
- Yamanaka & Company, New York, NY, to 1905 [1]
- From 1905 to 1919
- Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Yamanaka & Company in 1905 [2]
- From 1920
- Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [3]
- Notes:
- [1] See Original Pottery List, L. 1447, 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
- Cornucopia: Ceramics of Southern Japan (December 19, 2009 to January 9, 2011)
- Freer and Tea II: Raku, Hagi, Karatsu (July 8, 2006 to January 1, 2007)
- Japanese Art (November 7, 1986 to July 19, 1988)
- Japanese Ceramics (April 11, 1978 to January 17, 1980)
- Previous custodian or owner
- Yamanaka and Co. 山中商会 (1917-1965) (C.L. Freer source)
- Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)
- Data Source
- Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
- Date
- 1596-1615
- Period
- Momoyama period
- Credit Line
- Gift of Charles Lang Freer
- Medium
- Stoneware with iron pigment under ash glaze
- Dimensions
- H x Diam (overall): 5.1 x 7.9 cm (2 x 3 1/8 in)
- Style
- Karatsu ware, E-Karatsu type
- Type
- Vessel
