Jar with "octopus vinescroll" decoration
date: label: Date
content: 1800-1865
label: Period
content: Edo period
notes: label: Description
content: Jar, globular; large, deep fool. Black lacquer cover.
label: Description
content: Clay: hard, fine.
label: Description
content: Glaze: white darkening to deep cream, crackled in brown.
label: Description
content: Decoration: in blue, under glaze.
label: Provenance
content: To 1897
label: Provenance
content: Charles A. Dana (1819-1897), New York to 1897 [1]
label: Provenance
content: From 1898 to 1919
label: Provenance
content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased at auction, the Dana Collection Sale, American Art Galleries, New York February 24-26, 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. 133, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives.
label: Provenance
content: [2] See note 1. This object was probably No. 27 in the Dana Collection sale catalogue (see Curatorial Remark 10, Louise Cort, July 18, 2005, in the object record).
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: Charles A. Dana (1819-1897)
label: Previous custodian or owner
content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)
place: label: Origin
content: Saga prefecture, Japan
topic: label: Topic
content: ceramic
label: Topic
content: Arita ware
label: Topic
content: Edo period (1615 - 1868)
label: Topic
content: Japan
label: Topic
content: porcelain
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: F1898.33a-b
objectType: label: Type
content: Vessel
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Porcelain with cobalt decoration under clear colorless glaze
label: Dimensions
content: H x Diam: 11.3 × 15.2 cm (4 7/16 × 6 in)
label: Style
content: Arita ware