Square ember pot in Oribe style
date: label: Date
content: 1800-1860
label: Period
content: Edo period
notes: label: Description
content: Sandy, medium brown clay. Underglaze painted decoration in iron pigment and white slip, of primulas and birds. Translucent glaze, bluish where thick, with irregular coarse crackle; triangle of copper-tinted ash glaze, reduced to red, on one corner, volatilizing to adjacent side. Base unglazed.
label: Provenance
content: To 1899
label: Provenance
content: Japanese Trading Company, New York to 1899 [1]
label: Provenance
content: From 1899 to 1919
label: Provenance
content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Japanese Trading Company 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. 369, 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: Japanese Trading Company (C.L. Freer source)
label: Previous custodian or owner
content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)
place: label: Origin
content: Japan
topic: label: Topic
content: ceramic
label: Topic
content: flower
label: Topic
content: Edo period (1615 - 1868)
label: Topic
content: copper pigment
label: Topic
content: iron pigment
label: Topic
content: Japan
label: Topic
content: stoneware
label: Topic
content: white slip
label: Topic
content: Japanese Art
label: Topic
content: Kyushu-related ware
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: F1899.58
objectType: label: Type
content: Vessel
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Stoneware with copper and iron pigments and white slip under feldspathic glaze
label: Dimensions
content: H x Diam: 8.9 × 9.8 cm (3 1/2 × 3 7/8 in)
label: Style
content: Possibly Kyushu-related ware