Tea bowl with design of blossoming plum tree, unknown Raku ware workshop Medium: Raku-type pottery with Black Raku glaze; white slip and cobalt pigment under clear glaze Dimensions: H x W: 7.7 x 12 cm (3 1/16 x 4 3/4 in) Style: Raku ware, unknown workshop Type: Ceramic, Vessel Origin: Kyoto, Kyoto prefecture, Japan Topic: Raku ware, Edo period (1615 - 1868), plum blossom, tea, Japan, plum tree, Japanese Art Credit Line: Gift of Charles Lang Freer On View: Freer, Gallery 07: Bold and Beautiful: Rinpa in Japanese Art Date: 19th century Period: Edo period Accession Number: F1911.389 Data Source: Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Provenance: To 1911 Y. Fujita, Kyoto, to 1911. From 1911 to 1919 Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Y. Fujita in 1911. From 1920 Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920.