Arita ware tea bowl with design of phoenix
date: label: Date
content: 1670-1700
label: Period
content: Edo period
notes: label: Description
content: Bowl with low foot and wide rim.
label: Description
content: Clay: medium light gray stoneware, fired red on surface.
label: Description
content: Glaze: transparent, crackled: large areas of brown stain, some areas unstained.
label: Description
content: Decoration: spiral white slip painting under glaze inside with underglaze blue phoenix and pearl symbol with cloud scrolls. Outside are four blossom designs evenly spaced.
label: Provenance
content: To 1899
label: Provenance
content: S. Eida, to 1899 [1]
label: Provenance
content: From 1899 to 1919
label: Provenance
content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from S. Eida in 1899 [2]
label: Provenance
content: From 1920
label: Provenance
content: Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [3]
label: Provenance
content: Notes:
label: Provenance
content: [1] See Original Pottery List, L. 469, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives.
label: Provenance
content: [2] See note 1.
label: Provenance
content: [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.
label: Collection
content: Freer Gallery of Art Collection
label: Previous custodian or owner
content: S. Eida (C.L. Freer source)
label: Previous custodian or owner
content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)
place: label: Origin
content: possibly Shimo Shirakawa kilns, Arita, Saga prefecture, Japan
topic: label: Topic
content: ceramic
label: Topic
content: phoenix
label: Topic
content: Arita ware
label: Topic
content: Edo period (1615 - 1868)
label: Topic
content: tea
label: Topic
content: cobalt pigment
label: Topic
content: Japan
label: Topic
content: stoneware
label: Topic
content: white slip
label: Topic
content: Japanese Art
label: Topic
content: Charles Lang Freer collection
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content: Google Arts & Culture
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content: Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Collection
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Charles Lang Freer
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: F1899.23
objectType: label: Type
content: Vessel
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Stoneware with white slip and cobalt pigment under clear glaze
label: Dimensions
content: H x Diam: 6.4 × 15.8 cm (2 1/2 × 6 1/4 in)
label: Style
content: Arita ware, totai sometsuke type