Object Details
- Description
- Candy-pellet bottle (furidashi 振出し)
- Clay: dense, coarse, gray. Base ground down.
- Glaze: mingled copper-brown and black, of soft metallic lustre.
- Glaze ran onto base; ground off at lower edge. Two fingerprints near base.
- Provenance
- To 1905
- Thomas E. Waggaman (1839-1906), Washington, DC, to 1905 [1]
- From 1905 to 1919
- Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased at the sale of the Waggaman Collection, American Art Association, New York, NY, January 25-February 3, 1905, no. 1903 [2]
- From 1920
- Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [3]
- Notes:
- [1] See Original Pottery List, L. 1359, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives. Also see Curatorial Remark 7, Louise Cort, June 17, 2008, in the object record.
- [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
- Thomas E. Waggaman (1839-1906)
- American Art Association (established 1883) (C.L. Freer source)
- Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)
- Data Source
- Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
- Date
- 1615-1868
- Period
- Edo period
- Credit Line
- Gift of Charles Lang Freer
- Medium
- Stoneware with iron glaze
- Dimensions
- H x Diam: 7.4 × 6.5 cm (2 15/16 × 2 9/16 in)
- Style
- Probably Tamba ware
- Type
- Vessel
