Jar, possibly Seto ware
date: label: Date
content: late 18th-19th century
label: Period
content: Edo period
notes: label: Description
content: Kuan-shape jar. Old repair on rim.
label: Description
content: Clay: hard, dense, gray-white.
label: Description
content: Glaze: mottled reddish-orange with flowing splash of gray-green, yellow-gray, light blue and violet; crackled. Inside: thin, dark bream. Four long fissures. Base unglazed.
label: Marks
content: Inside mark: Einen [CHN], incised on base.
label: Marks
content: Inside mark: Einen [CHN], incised on base.
label: Provenance
content: To 1897
label: Provenance
content: Rufus E. Moore, New York to 1897 [1]
label: Provenance
content: From 1897 to 1919
label: Provenance
content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Rufus E. Moore in 1897 [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. 124, 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: The Peacock Room (May 2, 1923 to February 21, 2011)
label: Previous custodian or owner
content: Rufus E. Moore (1840-1918) (C.L. Freer source)
label: Previous custodian or owner
content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)
place: label: Origin
content: Seto kilns, Aichi prefecture, Japan
topic: label: Topic
content: ceramic
label: Topic
content: Seto ware
label: Topic
content: Edo period (1615 - 1868)
label: Topic
content: Japan
label: Topic
content: stoneware
label: Topic
content: rice-straw-ash glaze
label: Topic
content: Japanese Art
label: Topic
content: Charles Lang Freer collection
setName: label: Related Online Resources
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: F1897.44
objectType: label: Type
content: Vessel
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Stoneware with feldspathic and rice-straw-ash glazes
label: Dimensions
content: H x Diam: 18 × 19.1 cm (7 1/16 × 7 1/2 in)
label: Style
content: Possibly Seto ware