Yatsushiro ware tea bowl with inlaid design of kirin, pine, and ivy
date: label: Date
content: 1650-1750
label: Period
content: Edo period
notes: label: Description
content: Tea bowl, flaring ovoidal; low foot.
label: Description
content: Clay: hard, gray
label: Description
content: Glaze: light, greenish-gray with deep gray-white areas; fine crackle. Underfired.
label: Description
content: Decoration: inlaid with white on both surfaces.
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] Undated folder sheet note. See Original Pottery List, L. 563, 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: 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: ceramic
label: Topic
content: pine tree
label: Topic
content: Yatsushiro ware
label: Topic
content: Edo period (1615 - 1868)
label: Topic
content: tea
label: Topic
content: Japan
label: Topic
content: stoneware
label: Topic
content: white slip
label: Topic
content: Japanese Art
label: Topic
content: Charles Lang Freer collection
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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: F1898.69
objectType: label: Type
content: Vessel
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Stoneware with white slip under feldspathic glaze
label: Dimensions
content: H x Diam: 6.9 × 15.4 cm (2 11/16 × 6 1/16 in)
label: Style
content: Yatsushiro ware