Cylindrical tea bowl, unknown Raku ware workshop
date: label: Date
content: 1615-1868
label: Period
content: Edo period
name: label: Artist
content: Attributed by accompanying document to Hon'ami Koetsu 本阿弥光悦 (1558-1637)
notes: label: Description
content: Raku ware, unknown workshop, style of Hon'ami Koetsu
label: Description
content: Cylindrical tea bowl
label: Description
content: Brown lacquer repair
label: Description
content: Clay: soft, grayish, Raku type
label: Description
content: Glaze: mingled brick-red and greenish gray. Red Raku glaze.
label: Label
content: The paper label formerly attached to the box lid for this tall cylindrical bowl relates that it was one of a group of five similar bowls made by Koetsu. It had belonged to the Owari branch of the Tokugawa family that ruled Japan throughout the Edo period, and it had been given to its owner by an unspecified head of the Omote Senke Tea School. A deep crack in the rim that probably occurred during firing has been repaired with red-tinted lacquer.
label: Provenance
content: To 1899
label: Provenance
content: Yamanaka & Company, to 1899 [1]
label: Provenance
content: From 1899 to 1919
label: Provenance
content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Yamanaka & Company in 1899 [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] Undated folder sheet note. Also see Original Pottery List, L. 629, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives. The majority of Charles Lang Freer’s purchases from Yamanaka & Company were made at its New York branch. Yamanaka & Company maintained branch offices, at various times, in Boston, Chicago, London, Peking, Shanghai, Osaka, Nara, and Kyoto. During the summer, the company also maintained seasonal locations in Newport, Bar Harbor, and Atlantic City.
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: Boxed In: Japanese Ceramics and Their Storage Boxes (September 23, 1982 to February 17, 1983)
label: Exhibition History
content: Special Exhibition of Japanese Pottery (October 29, 1971 to October 31, 1971)
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: Kyoto, Japan
topic: label: Topic
content: lacquer
label: Topic
content: ceramic
label: Topic
content: Raku ware
label: Topic
content: Edo period (1615 - 1868)
label: Topic
content: tea
label: Topic
content: Japan
label: Topic
content: Japanese Art
label: Topic
content: lacquer repair
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: F1899.13
objectType: label: Type
content: Vessel
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Earthenware with red ochre slip under clear lead glaze; lacquer repair
label: Dimensions
content: H x Diam: 9.4 × 10.2 cm (3 11/16 × 4 in)
label: Style
content: Raku ware, unknown workshop