Tea bowl in the shape of an Ido tea bowl, Hagi ware
date: label: Date
content: mid 18th-mid 19th century
label: Period
content: Edo period
notes: label: Description
content: Tea bowl is in shape of Korean Ido tea bowl. Fire-crack filled with lacquer.
label: Description
content: Clay: hard, resonant
label: Description
content: Glaze: luminous old-rose-pink, with touches of olive-yellow; closely crackled, rough surface. Four spur-marks on glazed footrim. Tea stains on interior.
label: Label
content: Later potters working at the Hagi kilns consciously produced replicas of classic Korean tea-bowl shapes. This bowl echoes the shape of the so-called Ido tea bowl that was made at provincial Korean kilns in the sixteenth century. Frequent use of this bowl for making tea caused the color of the clay body to change--a phenomenon connoisseurs welcomed.
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. 539, 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: Korean Style in Japanese Ceramics (August 23, 2013 to February 9, 2014)
label: Exhibition History
content: Freer and Tea II: Raku, Hagi, Karatsu (July 8, 2006 to January 1, 2007)
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: Yamaguchi prefecture, Japan
topic: label: Topic
content: ceramic
label: Topic
content: Hagi ware
label: Topic
content: Edo period (1615 - 1868)
label: Topic
content: tea
label: Topic
content: Japan
label: Topic
content: stoneware
label: Topic
content: Japanese Art
label: Topic
content: Charles Lang Freer collection
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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: F1898.20
objectType: label: Type
content: Vessel
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Stoneware with ash glaze
label: Dimensions
content: H x Diam: 8.2 x 15.4 cm (3 1/4 x 6 1/16 in)
label: Style
content: Hagi ware