Tea bowl, unknown Raku ware workshop
date: label: Date
content: 17th or 19th century
label: Period
content: Edo period
name: label: Artist
content: Doraku
notes: label: Description
content: Raku type ware, unknown kiln.
label: Description
content: Tea-bowl, very deep cylindrical; low foot. Gold lacquer repairs.
label: Description
content: Clay: soft, dense, grayish.
label: Description
content: Glaze: brilliant thick black, revealing yellow under.
label: Description
content: Inscription incised in paste.
label: Inscriptions
content: The inscription incised in the side of the bowl under the black glaze appears to read:
label: Inscriptions
content: Yamagami-ko no mei ni yori Doraku saku
label: Inscriptions
content: [JPN]
label: Inscriptions
content: Made by Doraku upon order of Lord Yamagami
label: Provenance
content: To 1894
label: Provenance
content: Tozo Takayanagi, New York to 1894 [1]
label: Provenance
content: From 1894 to 1919
label: Provenance
content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Tozo Takayanagi in 1894 [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. 304, 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: 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: Kyoto or Sakai, 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: F1894.16
objectType: label: Type
content: Vessel
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Raku-type clay with Black Raku glaze; gold lacquer repairs
label: Dimensions
content: H x Diam: 13.4 × 12 cm (5 1/4 × 4 3/4 in)
label: Style
content: Raku ware, unknown workshop