Taizan ware vase with design of the character for "longevity"
date: label: Date
content: 1850-1860
label: Period
content: Edo period
name: label: Artist
content: Taizan Yohei
notes: label: Description
content: Vase, tall beaker-shape.
label: Description
content: Clay: dense, sonorous, grayish.
label: Description
content: Glaze: cream-white, minutely crackled; inside - red-brown wash.
label: Description
content: Decoration: in blue, over glaze.
label: Description
content: Mark: Taizan [Jpn]
label: Marks
content: Taizan [Jpn]
label: Provenance
content: To 1895
label: Provenance
content: Rufus E. Moore (1840 - 1918), New York to 1895 [1]
label: Provenance
content: From 1895 to 1919
label: Provenance
content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Rufus E. Moore in 1895 [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. 45, 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: Rufus E. Moore (1840-1918) (C.L. Freer source)
label: Previous custodian or owner
content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)
place: label: Origin
content: Awataguchi, Kyoto, Kyoto prefecture, Japan
topic: label: Topic
content: ceramic
label: Topic
content: Kyoto ware
label: Topic
content: Edo period (1615 - 1868)
label: Topic
content: Japan
label: Topic
content: porcelain
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: F1895.2
objectType: label: Type
content: Vessel
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Porcelain with cobalt decoration under clear glaze
label: Dimensions
content: H x Diam: 29 × 16.6 cm (11 7/16 × 6 9/16 in)
label: Style
content: Kyoto ware