Tea ceremony water jar, unknown Raku ware workshop
date: label: Date
content: late 18th-19th century
label: Period
content: Edo period
name: label: Artist
content: False seal of Chojiro
notes: label: Description
content: Water-jar, bulbous ovoidal.
label: Description
content: Clay: light-weight, gray-white; Raku-type ware.
label: Description
content: Glaze: thin, bright yellow-olive and olive-brown.
label: Description
content: Decoration: broadly incised I paste.
label: Description
content: Seal: 天下一ラク長二了
label: Description
content: Inscriptions: 妙喜庵常什　金玉満堂
label: Marks
content: Seal: 天下一ラク長二了
label: Marks
content: Seal: 天下一ラク長二了
label: Inscriptions
content: Inscriptions: 妙喜庵常什　
label: Inscriptions
content: Inscriptions: 妙喜庵常什　
label: Provenance
content: To 1898
label: Provenance
content: Yamanaka & Company, 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] See Original Pottery List, L. 206, 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: ceramic
label: Topic
content: Nanzan ware
label: Topic
content: Raku ware
label: Topic
content: Edo period (1615 - 1868)
label: Topic
content: water
label: Topic
content: tea
label: Topic
content: Japan
label: Topic
content: earthenware
label: Topic
content: brown and black glaze
label: Topic
content: Japanese Art
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: F1898.516
objectType: label: Type
content: Vessel
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Earthenware with iron glaze
label: Dimensions
content: H x Diam: 14.6 × 15.7 cm (5 3/4 × 6 3/16 in)
label: Style
content: Raku ware, unknown workshop