Sake bottle, Bizen ware, Imbe type
date: label: Date
content: late 17th-early 18th century
label: Period
content: Edo period
notes: label: Description
content: Sake bottle (tokkuri), pear-shaped, with slender tapering neck.
label: Description
content: Clay: fired reddish brown.
label: Description
content: Glaze: lustrous, reddish-brown, clouded with black and olive, flecked with yellow.
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, no. 22 [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. 134, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives.
label: Provenance
content: [2] See note 1. See also, Curatorial Remark 8, 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: Exhibition History
content: Japanese Ceramics (June 22, 1982 to September 27, 1982)
label: Exhibition History
content: Japanese Ceramics (July 15, 1980 to June 21, 1982)
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: Imbe, Okayama prefecture, Japan
topic: label: Topic
content: ceramic
label: Topic
content: Bizen ware, Imbe type
label: Topic
content: Edo period (1615 - 1868)
label: Topic
content: wine
label: Topic
content: sake
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: F1898.34
objectType: label: Type
content: Vessel
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Stoneware with red slip and wood-ash glaze
label: Dimensions
content: H x Diam: 21.9 × 11 cm (8 5/8 × 4 5/16 in)
label: Style
content: Bizen ware, Imbe type