Tea bowl with design of autumn grasses
date: label: Date
content: mid 19th century
label: Period
content: Edo period
name: label: Artist
content: Kashu Mimpei (1796-1871)
notes: label: Description
content: Tea-bowl, ovoidal; deep flaring foot, notched.
label: Description
content: Clay: hard, dense, whitish.
label: Description
content: Glaze: lustrous warm cream, finely crackled.
label: Description
content: Decorations: floral, enameled in colors and gold, over glaze.
label: Description
content: Seal: Mimpei.
label: Marks
content: Seal: Mimpei
label: Label
content: The flowering autumnal plants on this tea bowl continue an ancient motif favored on enamel decorated Kyoto and Kyoto-style ceramics, as well as on decorated lacquer and textiles. The decorator was skilled at naturalistic rendering of the chrysanthemums, pampas grass, and other plants.
label: Provenance
content: To 1893
label: Provenance
content: Tozo Takayanagi, New York to 1893 [1]
label: Provenance
content: From 1893 to 1919
label: Provenance
content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Tozo Takayanagi in 1893 [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. 300, 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: Tea Bowls in Bloom: Botanical Decoration on Tea Ceremony Ceramics (February 3 to July 15, 2007)
label: Previous custodian or owner
content: Takayanagi Tozo 高柳陶造 (C.L. Freer source)
label: Previous custodian or owner
content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)
place: label: Origin
content: Awaji island, Hyogo prefecture, Japan
topic: label: Topic
content: ceramic
label: Topic
content: flower
label: Topic
content: autumn
label: Topic
content: Mimpei ware
label: Topic
content: Edo period (1615 - 1868)
label: Topic
content: tea
label: Topic
content: grass
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: F1893.9
objectType: label: Type
content: Vessel
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Stoneware with enamels over clear colorless glaze
label: Dimensions
content: H x Diam: 7.6 x 12.4 cm (3 x 4 7/8 in)
label: Style
content: Mimpei ware