Korakuen ware tea bowl with design of Mt. Fuji
date: label: Date
content: 19th century
label: Period
content: Edo period
name: label: Artist
content: Probably by Raku Tannyu (1795-1854)
notes: label: Description
content: Tea bowl, cylindrical; small, retired foot.
label: Description
content: Clay: soft, Raku
label: Description
content: Glaze: rich, black, iridesctent; orangepeel surface. Three spur-marks on footrim.
label: Description
content: Decoration: in grayish-cream glaze, crackled. Mt. Fuji amidst clouds.
label: Description
content: Seal: Korakuen sei [Jpn], inside circularr frame. Impressed on base outside footrim.
label: Marks
content: Korakuen sei [Jpn], inside circularr frame. Impressed on base outside footrim
label: Label
content: Korakuen garden in Edo (Tokyo), built by the Mito Tokugawa house, still survives in much-reduced form. The pottery was staffed by several generations of the Raku workshop. This bowl is probably the work of Raku Tannyu; other bowls with design of Mt. Fuji made by Tannyu at Korakuen also survive.
label: Provenance
content: To 1898
label: Provenance
content: A.D. Vorce and Co., Hartford, CT, to 1898 [1]
label: Provenance
content: From 1898 to 1919
label: Provenance
content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from A.D. Vorce and Co. 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. 33, 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: Artists of Edo (November 19, 2005 to May 29, 2006)
label: Exhibition History
content: Real and Imagined Places in Japanese Art (March 4 to October 21, 2001)
label: Exhibition History
content: Garden Potteries and Official Kilns: Clan-Sponsored Ceramics in the Edo Period (January 16, 1986 to November 3, 1986)
label: Exhibition History
content: Centennial Exhibition, Galleries 1 and 2 (February 25, 1956 to January 1, 1963)
label: Exhibition History
content: Untitled Exhibition, Japanese Art, 1955 (October 25, 1955 to November 22, 1955)
label: Exhibition History
content: Untitled Exhibition, Japanese Art, 1951 (January 23, 1951 to February 25, 1956)
label: Exhibition History
content: Untitled Exhibition, Japanese Hanging Scrolls, Ceramics, and Sculpture (October 2, 1947 to January 23, 1951)
label: Exhibition History
content: Untitled Exhibition, Japanese Ceramics and Painting (May 2, 1946 to October 2, 1947)
label: Previous custodian or owner
content: A. D. Vorce and Co. (C.L. Freer source)
label: Previous custodian or owner
content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)
place: label: Origin
content: Tokyo, Japan
topic: label: Topic
content: ceramic
label: Topic
content: Korakuen ware
label: Topic
content: Edo period (1615 - 1868)
label: Topic
content: tea
label: Topic
content: Mount Fuji
label: Topic
content: Japan
label: Topic
content: earthenware
label: Topic
content: Japanese Art
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: F1898.132
objectType: label: Type
content: Vessel
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Earthenware with Black Raku and white glazes
label: Dimensions
content: H x Diam: 9.2 × 11.7 cm (3 5/8 × 4 5/8 in)
label: Style
content: Korakuen ware