Tea bowl with design of seedling pines, named <em>Okina</em>
date: label: Date
content: 19th century
label: Period
content: Edo period
name: label: Artist
content: Attributed to Okazaki Bunzan 岡崎文山
label: Artist
content: Originally attributed to Joshin
notes: label: Description
content: Tea-bowl, cylindrical, low foot.
label: Description
content: Clay: dense, grayish, Raku type.
label: Description
content: Glaze: brilliant black.
label: Description
content: Decoration: seedling pines (wakamatsu [Jpn]) lightly incised in paste.
label: Provenance
content: To 1897
label: Provenance
content: Bunkio Matsuki (1867-1940), Boston, to 1897 [1]
label: Provenance
content: From 1897 to 1919
label: Provenance
content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Bunkio Matsuki in 1897 [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, 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: Freer’s Global Network: Artists, Collectors, and Dealers (October 15, 2022 - ongoing)
label: Previous custodian or owner
content: Bunkio Matsuki 松木文恭 (1867-1940) (C.L. Freer source)
label: Previous custodian or owner
content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)
place: label: Origin
content: Kyoto, Kyoto prefecture, Japan
topic: label: Topic
content: ceramic
label: Topic
content: pine tree
label: Topic
content: Raku ware
label: Topic
content: Edo period (1615 - 1868)
label: Topic
content: tea
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 09: Freer’s Global Network
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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: F1897.36
objectType: label: Type
content: Vessel
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Stoneware with Black Raku type glaze
label: Dimensions
content: H x Diam: 8.2 × 10.8 cm (3 1/4 × 4 1/4 in)
label: Style
content: Raku ware, unknown workshop