Bizen ware sake bottle in the shape of a wild duck
date: label: Date
content: early 19th century
label: Period
content: Edo period
name: label: Artist
content: Terami Enkichi (died 1838)
notes: label: Description
content: Sake bottle (tokkuri), gourd-shaped, with pinched body; twisted bulbous neck and short spout. Restoration on spout.
label: Description
content: Clay: fine, fired reddish-brown.
label: Description
content: Glaze: lustrous, mottled reddish to blackish brown, iridescent areas, yellow spots.
label: Description
content: Impressed mark: Character tera in seal script within outline of folding fan.
label: Marks
content: Impressed mark: Character "tera" in seal script within outline of folding fan.
label: Provenance
content: To 1896
label: Provenance
content: Tozo Takayanagi, New York to 1896 [1]
label: Provenance
content: From 1896 to 1919
label: Provenance
content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Tozo Takayanagi in 1896 [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. 146, 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: Japanese Art from the Collection (October 26, 2024 - ongoing)
label: Exhibition History
content: Poetic License: Making Old Worlds New (February 2 to August 4, 2013)
label: Exhibition History
content: Japanese Ceramics from Past to Present (February 18, 1983 to February 16, 1984)
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: Imbe, Okayama prefecture, Japan
topic: label: Topic
content: iridescence
label: Topic
content: ceramic
label: Topic
content: duck
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
setName: label: On View
content: West Building (Freer Gallery of Art), Gallery 06: Japanese Art from the Collection
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: F1896.58
objectType: label: Type
content: Vessel
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Stoneware with ash glaze drops
label: Dimensions
content: H x Diam: 19.3 x 10.9 cm (7 5/8 x 4 5/16 in)
label: Style
content: Bizen ware, Imbe type