Satsuma ware serving bowl, Ryumonji kilns
date: label: Date
content: 1790-1860
label: Period
content: Edo period
notes: label: Description
content: Cake dish with foliate rim and lobed walls.
label: Description
content: Clay: hard, grayish. Dark purple-brown on surface.
label: Description
content: Glaze: brilliant black closely powdered with green; overflow of gray-white flushed with pink, crackled. Tama-nagashi glaze format.
label: Provenance
content: To 1898
label: Provenance
content: Bunkio Matsuki (1867-1940), Boston, to 1898 [1]
label: Provenance
content: From 1898 to 1919
label: Provenance
content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Bunkio Matsuki in 1898 [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. See Original Pottery List, L. 407, 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: Previous custodian or owner
content: Bunkio Matsuki 松木文恭 (1867-1940) (C.L. Freer source)
label: Previous custodian or owner
content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)
place: label: Origin
content: Ryumonji kilns, Kajiki, Kagoshima prefecture, Japan
topic: label: Topic
content: ceramic
label: Topic
content: Ryumonji ware
label: Topic
content: Satsuma ware
label: Topic
content: Edo period (1615 - 1868)
label: Topic
content: Japan
label: Topic
content: stoneware
label: Topic
content: brown and black glaze
label: Topic
content: rice-straw-ash glaze
label: Topic
content: Japanese Art
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: F1898.474
objectType: label: Type
content: Vessel
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Stoneware with iron and rice-straw-ash glazes
label: Dimensions
content: H x Diam: 6.8 × 17.8 cm (2 11/16 × 7 in)
label: Style
content: Satsuma ware, Ryumonji kilns