Object Details
- Description
- Tea-ceremony water jar (mizusashi 水指])
- Cylindrical; rudimentary handles; heavy foot, notched.
- Clay: hard, dense, stoneware, reddish on surface, grayish on interior
- Glaze: White slip, brushed horizontally (visible at foot), under blue, blended with green, yellow-olive, purple, and greenish-brown underfired area; dark crackle.
- Decoration: incised pairs of rings circling body, one each above and below lugs, cut through slip.
- Provenance
- To 1906
- Spier Collection, London, to 1906 [1]
- From 1906 to 1919
- Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), puchased from Spier Collection, London, in 1906 [2]
- From 1920
- Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [3]
- Notes:
- [1] See Original Pottery List, L. 9, 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)
- Previous custodian or owner
- Julius Spier (1848-1923) (C.L. Freer source)
- Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)
- Data Source
- Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
- Date
- 1630-1650
- Period
- Edo period
- Credit Line
- Gift of Charles Lang Freer
- Medium
- Stoneware with white slip under copper-green glaze, ash glaze
- Dimensions
- H x Diam: 22.5 × 18.7 cm (8 7/8 × 7 3/8 in)
- Style
- Karatsu ware, Takeo Karatsu type
- Type
- Vessel
