Tea bowl, copy of "Kaga Koetsu," unknown Raku ware workshop
date: label: Date
content: 19th century
label: Period
content: Edo period
name: label: Artist
content: Style of Hon'ami Koetsu 本阿弥光悦 (1558-1637)
notes: label: Description
content: Tea bowl. Gold lacquer repairs.
label: Description
content: Clay: Raku type, light brown clay.
label: Description
content: Glaze: brilliant orange-red slip, brushed into areas of white slip, clear glaze with overflow of gray-white, crackled.
label: Label
content: This bowl is heavy for its size and hesitantly carved. These features suggest that it was made by an inexperienced potter. A thick curtain of whitish glaze masks the red slip. The exaggerated undulations of the rim are a later convention not found in Koetsu's own bowls.
label: Provenance
content: To 1897
label: Provenance
content: Yamanaka & Company, to 1897 [1]
label: Provenance
content: From 1897 to 1919
label: Provenance
content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Yamanaka & Company 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, L. 483, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives. The majority of Charles Lang Freer’s purchases from Yamanaka & Company were made at its New York branch. Yamanaka & Company maintained branch offices, at various times, in Boston, Chicago, London, Peking, Shanghai, Osaka, Nara, and Kyoto. During the summer, the company also maintained seasonal locations in Newport, Bar Harbor, and Atlantic City.
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: Kyoto, Kyoto prefecture, Japan
topic: label: Topic
content: lacquer
label: Topic
content: ceramic
label: Topic
content: Raku ware
label: Topic
content: Edo period (1615 - 1868)
label: Topic
content: tea
label: Topic
content: copy
label: Topic
content: Japan
label: Topic
content: Japanese Art
label: Topic
content: lacquer repair
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: F1897.38
objectType: label: Type
content: Vessel
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Earthenware with red and white slips brushed under translucent lead glaze, milky where thick; gold lacquer repairs
label: Dimensions
content: H x Diam: 9.6 × 12.9 cm (3 3/4 × 5 1/16 in)
label: Style
content: Raku ware, unknown workshop