Vase with design of dragons chasing flaming jewel
date: label: Date
content: 19th century
label: Period
content: Edo period
notes: label: Description
content: Cylindrical vase.
label: Description
content: Clay: hard, dense, gray.
label: Description
content: Glaze: clear glaze, slightly yellowish over white slip on exterior. Glaze alone on interior.
label: Description
content: Decoration: incised through slip into body. Accented with pale, blue-gray cobalt. Pair of dragons, flaming jewel, auspicious clouds.
label: Provenance
content: ?-1899
label: Provenance
content: Yamanaka & Company, New York, method of acquisition unknown [1]
label: Provenance
content: 1899-1919
label: Provenance
content: Charles Lang Freer, purchased from Yamanaka & Company [2]
label: Provenance
content: From 1920
label: Provenance
content: Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer [3]
label: Provenance
content: Notes:
label: Provenance
content: [1] See invoice from Yamanaka & Co., New York to Mr. Chars. L. Freer, March 6, 1899. The work is identified as "B 6083: 1 Satsuma Vase, gray & pale blue dragon & clouds." Copy in object file.
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: Provenance
content: Research completed November 18, 2022.
label: Collection
content: Freer Gallery of Art Collection
label: Exhibition History
content: The Peacock Room Comes to America [2022] (September 3, 2022 - ongoing)
label: Exhibition History
content: The Peacock Room Comes to America [2017-2019] (October 14, 2017 to January 2, 2019)
label: Exhibition History
content: The Peacock Room Comes to America [2011-2016] (April 9, 2011 to January 4, 2016)
label: Exhibition History
content: Cornucopia: Ceramics of Southern Japan (December 19, 2009 to January 9, 2011)
label: Exhibition History
content: Boxed In: Japanese Ceramics and Their Storage Boxes (September 23, 1982 to February 17, 1983)
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: Tsuboya kilns, Naha, Okinawa prefecture, Japan
topic: label: Topic
content: ceramic
label: Topic
content: dragon
label: Topic
content: Tsuboya ware
label: Topic
content: Edo period (1615 - 1868)
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
setName: label: Related Online Resources
content: Google Arts & Culture
label: Related Online Resources
content: The Story of the Beautiful
label: See more items in
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: F1899.8a-b
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: 27 × 13.9 cm (10 5/8 × 5 1/2 in)
label: Style
content: Tsuboya ware