Tea ceremony water jar, Takatori or Karatsu ware
date: label: Date
content: 1598-1610
label: Period
content: Momoyama period
notes: label: Description
content: Water jar for the tea ceremony (mizusashi): ovoidal; wide mouth and flat, slightly hollowed base. Lacquer cover. Lacquer repairs on rim.
label: Description
content: Clay: hard, grayish.
label: Description
content: Glaze: lustrous dark yellow-brown with dripping overflow of (rice-straw-ash) blue; pool of blue and cream (rice-straw-ash glaze) inside.
label: Description
content: Decoration: wave-motive impressed in paste under glaze, on the inside (marks of anvil with incised pattern of concentric circles).
label: Provenance
content: To 1899
label: Provenance
content: Yamanaka & Company, New York, NY, 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. 170, 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: Cornucopia: Ceramics of Southern Japan (December 19, 2009 to January 9, 2011)
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: Fukuoka prefecture, Japan
topic: label: Topic
content: lacquer
label: Topic
content: ceramic
label: Topic
content: Karatsu ware
label: Topic
content: Takatori ware
label: Topic
content: Momoyama period (1573 - 1615)
label: Topic
content: water
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: F1899.62a-b
objectType: label: Type
content: Vessel
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Stoneware with rice-straw-ash glaze; lacquered wooden lid
label: Dimensions
content: H x Diam: 15.2 × 17.1 cm (6 × 6 3/4 in)
label: Style
content: Takatori or Agano ware