Container with frog at rim
date: label: Date
content: 1770-1827
label: Period
content: Edo period
name: label: Artist
content: Kato Buemon (Shun'u) (died 1827)
notes: label: Description
content: Light gray clay, darkened on surface by use. Potter's mark on base to right. Clear ash glaze under copper-green (rusu) glaze streaked with bluish white, forming thick welt just above base. Clear glaze on inside. Relief figure of tiny frog climbing over rim. With ivory lid.
label: Marks
content: Potter's mark, "Shun'u," without frame, impressed on base to right.
label: Provenance
content: To 1898
label: Provenance
content: Japanese Trading Company, New York to 1898 [1]
label: Provenance
content: From 1898 to 1919
label: Provenance
content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Japanese Trading 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. 739, 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: Japanese Trading Company (C.L. Freer source)
label: Previous custodian or owner
content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)
place: label: Origin
content: Seto, Aichi prefecture, Japan
topic: label: Topic
content: ceramic
label: Topic
content: Seto ware
label: Topic
content: Edo period (1615 - 1868)
label: Topic
content: frog
label: Topic
content: tea
label: Topic
content: Japan
label: Topic
content: stoneware
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: F1898.446a-b
objectType: label: Type
content: Container
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Stoneware with copper-green glaze
label: Dimensions
content: H x Diam: 10.8 × 6.1 cm (4 1/4 × 2 3/8 in)
label: Style
content: Seto ware