Bottle with inlaid design of orchids
date: label: Date
content: 1830-1860
label: Period
content: Edo period
name: label: Artist
content: Agano Yaguma (1795-1871)
notes: label: Description
content: Bottle, ovoidal, flaring underbody, breaking into over-turned goblet form.
label: Description
content: Clay: dense, resonant, gray-white.
label: Description
content: Glaze: greenish gray with blackish areas; fine crackled.
label: Description
content: Decoration: inlaid with cream and pinkish-tan paste, under glaze.
label: Provenance
content: To 1898
label: Provenance
content: Yamanaka & Company, New York to 1898 [1]
label: Provenance
content: From 1898 to 1919
label: Provenance
content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Yamanaka & Company 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] See Original Pottery List, L. 702, 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: The Peacock Room Comes to America [2011-2016] (April 9, 2011 to January 4, 2016)
label: Exhibition History
content: Cornucopia: Ceramics of Southern Japan (December 19, 2009 to January 9, 2011)
label: Exhibition History
content: Selections from the Japanese Collection (March 22 to November 29, 1999)
label: Exhibition History
content: Korean Influences on Japanese Slip-Decorated Ceramics (February 16, 1984 to November 9, 1984)
label: Previous custodian or owner
content: Yamanaka and Co. 山中商会 (1917-1965) (C.L. Freer source)
label: Previous custodian or owner
content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)
place: label: Origin
content: Yatsushiro, Kumamoto prefecture, Japan
topic: label: Topic
content: inlay (process)
label: Topic
content: ceramic
label: Topic
content: Yatsushiro ware
label: Topic
content: Edo period (1615 - 1868)
label: Topic
content: orchid
label: Topic
content: Japan
label: Topic
content: white slip
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
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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: F1898.140
objectType: label: Type
content: Vessel
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Stoneware with white slip inlaid under clear glaze
label: Dimensions
content: H x Diam: 22.8 × 15.2 cm (9 × 6 in)
label: Style
content: Yatsushiro ware