Shidoro ware sake bottle
date: label: Date
content: 1800-1880
label: Period
content: Edo period or Meiji era
notes: label: Description
content: Large sake bottle (tokkuri 徳利). Bottle, ovoidal, with short, tubular neck.
label: Description
content: Clay: sandy, dark gray-brown.
label: Description
content: Glaze: thin, metallic dark-brown wash, splashed eccentrically; dappled ash glaze appearing green over body, amber over wash. Heavy overflow of rich, brilliant seal-brown and black, crackled, on neck and shoulder.
label: Provenance
content: To 1893
label: Provenance
content: Tozo Takayanagi, New York to 1893 [1]
label: Provenance
content: From 1893 to 1919
label: Provenance
content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Tozo Takayanagi in 1893 [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.121, 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: The Peacock Room Comes to America [2022] (September 3, 2022 - ongoing)
label: Exhibition History
content: The Peacock Room Comes to America [2017-2019] (October 14, 2017 to January 2, 2019)
label: Exhibition History
content: The Peacock Room Comes to America [2011-2016] (April 9, 2011 to January 4, 2016)
label: Previous custodian or owner
content: Takayanagi Tozo 高柳陶造 (C.L. Freer source)
label: Previous custodian or owner
content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)
place: label: Origin
content: Shidoro kilns, Shizuoka prefecture, Japan
topic: label: Topic
content: ceramic
label: Topic
content: Shidoro ware
label: Topic
content: Edo period (1615 - 1868)
label: Topic
content: Meiji era (1868 - 1912)
label: Topic
content: sake
label: Topic
content: Japan
label: Topic
content: stoneware
label: Topic
content: Japanese Art
label: Topic
content: Charles Lang Freer collection
setName: label: Related Online Resources
content: Google Arts & Culture
label: Related Online Resources
content: The Story of the Beautiful
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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: F1893.2
objectType: label: Type
content: Vessel
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Stoneware with ash and iron glazes
label: Dimensions
content: H x Diam: 27.5 × 14.8 cm (10 13/16 × 5 13/16 in)
label: Style
content: Shidoro ware