Sake bottle
date: label: Date
content: 18th century
label: Period
content: Edo period
name: label: Artist
content: Decoration attributed to Kano Tangen (1679-1767)
notes: label: Description
content: Bottle (tokkuri 徳利), octagonal, ovoidal.
label: Description
content: Clay: hard, white.
label: Description
content: Glaze: luminous cream-white; variable brown crackle.
label: Description
content: Decoration: in grayish tones, under glaze.
label: Label
content: The decoration on this bottle is attributed to the artist Kano Tangen, who served as the official painter for the Satsuma domain, where the bottle was made.
label: Provenance
content: To 1892
label: Provenance
content: Tozo Takayanagi, New York to 1892 [1]
label: Provenance
content: From 1892 to 1919
label: Provenance
content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Tozo Takayanagi in 1892 [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. 93, 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 Comes to America [2022] (September 3, 2022 - ongoing)
label: Exhibition History
content: The Peacock Room Comes to America [2017-2019] (October 14, 2017 to January 2, 2019)
label: Exhibition History
content: Fine Impressions: Whistler, Freer, and Venice (October 18, 2014 to January 3, 2016)
label: Exhibition History
content: The Peacock Room Comes to America [2011-2016] (April 9, 2011 to January 4, 2016)
label: Exhibition History
content: Freer: A Taste for Japanese Art (July 1, 2006 to January 1, 2007)
label: Exhibition History
content: Whistler & Japan (May 14, 1995 to January 1, 1996)
label: Exhibition History
content: Garden Potteries and Official Kilns: Clan-Sponsored Ceramics in the Edo Period (January 16, 1986 to November 3, 1986)
label: Exhibition History
content: James McNeill Whistler at the Freer Gallery of Art: Artist and Patron (May 11, 1984 to January 17, 1985)
label: Exhibition History
content: Japanese Ceramics (April 11, 1978 to January 17, 1980)
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: Hiyamizu kiln, Kagoshima, Kagoshima prefecture, Japan
topic: label: Topic
content: ceramic
label: Topic
content: Satsuma ware, White Satsuma type
label: Topic
content: Edo period (1615 - 1868)
label: Topic
content: sake
label: Topic
content: Japan
label: Topic
content: stoneware
label: Topic
content: Japanese Art
label: Topic
content: Charles Lang Freer collection
setName: label: Related Online Resources
content: Google Arts & Culture
label: Related Online Resources
content: The Story of the Beautiful
label: See more items in
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: F1892.26
objectType: label: Type
content: Vessel
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Stoneware with cobalt pigment under clear glaze
label: Dimensions
content: H x Diam: 21.8 x 17.8 cm (8 9/16 x 7 in)
label: Style
content: Satsuma ware, White Satsuma type