Object Details
- Description
- Vase in shape of fulling block (kinuta hanaire 砧花入)
- Lacquer repairs on rim.
- Clay: hard, dense, gray, reddish on surface.
- Glaze: brilliant copper-green, crackled, with areas of reduced red. Applied over white slip.
- Provenance
- To 1907
- Unidentified owner, Japan, to 1907 [1]
- From 1907 to 1919
- Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased in Japan from an unidentified owner in 1907 [2]
- From 1920
- Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [3]
- Notes:
- [1] See Original Pottery List, L. 1570, 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
- Previous custodian or owner
- Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)
- Data Source
- Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
- Date
- 1700-1868
- Period
- Edo period
- Credit Line
- Gift of Charles Lang Freer
- Medium
- Stoneware with white slip under copper-green glaze, partially reduced to red; gold lacquer repairs
- Dimensions
- H x Diam: 24.8 × 11.1 cm (9 3/4 × 4 3/8 in)
- Style
- Shiwan (Shekwan) ware or Seto-related ware
- Type
- Vessel
