Vase in Oribe style, probably Seto ware
date: label: Date
content: 1800-1880
label: Period
content: Edo period or Meiji era
notes: label: Description
content: Buff clay. Wheel-thrown form distorted by vertical slashes made with a blade and by pinching from two opposite sides; base finished by hand. Feldspathic glaze, cream colored where thin, white where thick; splashes of copper-green ash glaze partially reduced to lavender and yellow-green; areas of crawling. Inside glazed; base glazed in concave center, unglazed around edge.
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. 147, 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: Japan
topic: label: Topic
content: ceramic
label: Topic
content: Seto ware
label: Topic
content: Edo period (1615 - 1868)
label: Topic
content: Meiji era (1868 - 1912)
label: Topic
content: Japan
label: Topic
content: stoneware
label: Topic
content: copper-green glaze
label: Topic
content: Japanese Art
label: Topic
content: Charles Lang Freer collection
label: Topic
content: Oribe style ware
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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: F1896.98
objectType: label: Type
content: Vessel
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Stoneware with feldspathic glaze and copper-green glaze (partially misfired to red)
label: Dimensions
content: H x Diam: 18.2 × 11.1 cm (7 3/16 × 4 3/8 in)
label: Style
content: Seto-related ware