Hand warmer with design of vines
date: label: Date
content: early 19th century
label: Period
content: Edo period
name: label: Artist
content: Nin'ami Dohachi 仁阿弥道八 (1783-1855)
notes: label: Description
content: Hand-warmer (te-aburi) with perforated dome cover; three stump feet.
label: Description
content: Clay: soft, gray-white; Raku-type porous clay.
label: Description
content: Glaze: brilliant sealing-wax red over yellow. Inside of bowl, gilded; inside of cover, black and yellow.
label: Description
content: Decoration: dark-red, in low relief, executed in lacquer.
label: Description
content: Mark. Dohachi, incised on base.
label: Label
content: In the unheated brothel rooms, portable charcoal-burning braziers provided warmth for guests. This handwarmer, made of Red Raku pottery, bears a design of a vine with autumnal red leaves worked naturalistically in cinnabar lacquer. Kyoto potter Dohachi collaborated with a lacquerer's workshop to execute this elaborate design. In a touch of hidden luxury, the interior of the lid is coated with gold leaf.
label: Provenance
content: To 1899
label: Provenance
content: Yamanaka & Company, to 1899 [1]
label: Provenance
content: From 1899 to 1919
label: Provenance
content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Yamanaka & Company in 1899 [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. 15, 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: Exhibition History
content: Tea in the Floating World (December 8, 2002 to May 26, 2003)
label: Exhibition History
content: Kyoto Ceramics (November 9, 1984 to April 25, 1985)
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: Gojozaka, Kyoto, Kyoto prefecture, Japan
topic: label: Topic
content: lacquer
label: Topic
content: ceramic
label: Topic
content: Kyoto ware
label: Topic
content: Edo period (1615 - 1868)
label: Topic
content: Japan
label: Topic
content: earthenware
label: Topic
content: red slip
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: F1899.3a-b
objectType: label: Type
content: Vessel
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Earthenware with red Raku glaze (red slip under clear glaze); red lacquer
label: Dimensions
content: H x Diam: 23.4 × 30.7 cm (9 3/16 × 12 1/16 in)
label: Style
content: Kyoto ware