Agano ware tea bowl
date: label: Date
content: 1610-1630
label: Period
content: Momoyama or Edo period
notes: label: Description
content: Tea-bowl (chawan [Jpn]), tall, spirally corrugated cylindrical body, bottoms curving down to high thick foot.
label: Description
content: Clay: coarse, dark stoneware.
label: Description
content: Glaze: brownish running to pinkish gray and bluish gray where thick; fine crackle. Interior of foot glazed.
label: Label
content: Korean potters founded the Agano kilns in Japan and prodced tea bowls like this one, whose rice-straw ash glaze reflects a utilitarian pottery tradition of northern Korea.
label: Provenance
content: To 1899
label: Provenance
content: Japanese Trading Company, New York to 1899 [1]
label: Provenance
content: From 1899 to 1919
label: Provenance
content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Japanese Trading 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. 368, 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: Imperfectly Beautiful: Inventing Japanese Ceramic Style (October 14, 2017 - October 14, 2019)
label: Exhibition History
content: Cornucopia: Ceramics of Southern Japan (December 19, 2009 to January 9, 2011)
label: Exhibition History
content: Rusticity Refined: Kyoto Ceramics by Ninsei (March 19 to October 23, 2005)
label: Exhibition History
content: An Invitation to Tea (November 9, 1996 to April 26, 1998)
label: Exhibition History
content: Japanese Screens (May 9, 1993 to November 13, 1995)
label: Exhibition History
content: Garden Potteries and Official Kilns: Clan-Sponsored Ceramics in the Edo Period (January 16, 1986 to November 3, 1986)
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: Kamanokuchi kiln, Fukuoka prefecture, Japan
topic: label: Topic
content: ceramic
label: Topic
content: Agano ware
label: Topic
content: Momoyama period (1573 - 1615)
label: Topic
content: Edo period (1615 - 1868)
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: F1899.57
objectType: label: Type
content: Vessel
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Stoneware with rice-straw ash glaze
label: Dimensions
content: H x Diam: 9.7 × 10 cm (3 13/16 × 3 15/16 in)
label: Style
content: Agano ware