Satsuma ware tea caddy
date: label: Date
content: 17th century
label: Period
content: Edo period
notes: label: Description
content: Tea caddy (chaire), elongated pear-shape. Ivory cover.
label: Description
content: Clay: hard, vibrant, grayish-white.
label: Description
content: Glaze: gray-white and dark yellow under glaze; heavy overflow of yellow-olive and seal-brown, flecked with white and blue. Red-brown wash on lower body.
label: Description
content: Weighed by Matsumura Makiko: 110.49 grams.
label: Description
content: Brown, white, and black glazes applied in layers. Interior glazed. String-cut base (wheel revolving counter-clockwise).
label: Provenance
content: To 1898
label: Provenance
content: Yamanaka & Company, New York to 1898 [1]
label: Provenance
content: From 1898 to 1919
label: Provenance
content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Yamanaka & Company in 1898 [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. 733, 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: Exhibition History
content: Cornucopia: Ceramics of Southern Japan (December 19, 2009 to January 9, 2011)
label: Exhibition History
content: Rusticity Refined: Kyoto Ceramics by Ninsei (March 19 to October 23, 2005)
label: Exhibition History
content: Garden Potteries and Official Kilns: Clan-Sponsored Ceramics in the Edo Period (January 16, 1986 to November 3, 1986)
label: Previous custodian or owner
content: Yamanaka and Co. 山中商会 (1917-1965) (C.L. Freer source)
label: Previous custodian or owner
content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)
place: label: Origin
content: Tateno kiln group, Uto or Osato kiln, Kagoshima prefecture, Japan
topic: label: Topic
content: ceramic
label: Topic
content: ivory
label: Topic
content: Satsuma ware, Old Chosa type
label: Topic
content: Edo period (1615 - 1868)
label: Topic
content: tea
label: Topic
content: Japan
label: Topic
content: stoneware
label: Topic
content: iron wash
label: Topic
content: rice-straw-ash glaze
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: F1898.470a-b
objectType: label: Type
content: Vessel
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Stoneware with iron wash, rice-straw-ash and iron glazes; ivory lid
label: Dimensions
content: H x Diam: 8.5 × 5.9 cm (3 3/8 × 2 5/16 in)
label: Style
content: Satsuma ware, Old Chosa type