Object Details
- Description
- Bottle, spherical, with short neck and small trumpet lip. Wood stand.
- Clay: fine, fired reddish-brown.
- Glaze: lustrous, mottled reddish to blackish brown, yellow spots.
- Impressed mark.
- Marks
- Impressed mark.
- Provenance
- To 1909
- Mr. D. J. Ushikubo, New York, NY, to 1909 [1]
- From 1909 to 1919
- Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), given by Mr. D. J. Ushikubo in 1909 [2]
- From 1920
- Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [3]
- Notes:
- [1] Undated folder sheet note. See Original Pottery List, L. 2055, 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
- Untitled Exhibition, Japanese Art, 1955 (October 25, 1955 to November 22, 1955)
- Untitled Exhibition, Japanese Art, 1951 (January 23, 1951 to February 25, 1956)
- Untitled Exhibition, Japanese Hanging Scrolls, Ceramics, and Sculpture (October 2, 1947 to January 23, 1951)
- Untitled Exhibition, Japanese Ceramics and Painting (May 2, 1946 to October 2, 1947)
- Japanese and Korean Pottery, and Korean Bronze (May 2, 1923 to March 22, 1943)
- Previous custodian or owner
- D. J. Ushikubo (C.L. Freer source)
- Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)
- Data Source
- Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
- Date
- 19th century
- Period
- Edo period
- Credit Line
- Gift of Charles Lang Freer
- Medium
- Stoneware with slip and wood-ash glaze
- Dimensions
- H x W: 11.4 x 11.4 cm (4 1/2 x 4 1/2 in)
- Style
- Bizen ware, Imbe type
- Type
- Vessel
