Tea caddy
date: label: Date
content: 1630-1750
label: Period
content: Edo period
notes: label: Description
content: Large tea caddy. Ivory cover.
label: Description
content: Clay: hard, grayish on interior, warm lustrous brown on surface. String-cut foot, three stilt marks.
label: Description
content: Glaze: mottled blue-black glaze stopping short over thin brown glaze.
label: Provenance
content: To 1898
label: Provenance
content: Rufus E. Moore (1840 - 1918), New York to 1898 [1]
label: Provenance
content: From 1898 to 1919
label: Provenance
content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Rufus E. Moore 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. 720, 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: Untitled Exhibition, Japanese Art, 1955 (October 25, 1955 to November 22, 1955)
label: Exhibition History
content: Untitled Exhibition, Japanese Art, 1951 (January 23, 1951 to February 25, 1956)
label: Exhibition History
content: Untitled Exhibition, Japanese Hanging Scrolls, Ceramics, and Sculpture (October 2, 1947 to January 23, 1951)
label: Exhibition History
content: Untitled Exhibition, Japanese Ceramics and Painting (May 2, 1946 to October 2, 1947)
label: Previous custodian or owner
content: Rufus E. Moore (1840-1918) (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: ivory
label: Topic
content: Edo period (1615 - 1868)
label: Topic
content: tea
label: Topic
content: Japan
label: Topic
content: stoneware
label: Topic
content: brown and black glaze
label: Topic
content: Japanese Art
label: Topic
content: Seto-related ware
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: F1898.85a-b
objectType: label: Type
content: Vessel
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Stoneware with iron glaze; ivory lid
label: Dimensions
content: H x Diam: 10.9 × 11.4 cm (4 5/16 × 4 1/2 in)
label: Style
content: Seto-related ware