Karatsu ware individual serving bowl
date: label: Date
content: 1650-1700
label: Period
content: Edo period
notes: label: Description
content: Bowl, small, shallow.
label: Description
content: Clay: medium stoneware, purplish brown.
label: Description
content: Glaze: clear.
label: Description
content: Decoration: in slip under glaze; cranes and small scroll in underglaze blue. Mishima & hakeme techniques.
label: Label
content: This charming bowl, made at a Karatsu kiln, evokes classical mishima motifs with stylized flower-heads and delicate 'rope curtain' stamps, revealed by careful removal of slip. At the same time, the popularity of cobalt-decorated porcelain is acknowledged by the "crane and cloud" motif sketches in cobalt on the remaining slip.
label: Provenance
content: To 1896
label: Provenance
content: Bunkio Matsuki (1867-1940), Boston, to 1896 [1]
label: Provenance
content: From 1896 to 1919
label: Provenance
content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Bunkio Matsuki in 1896 [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, 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: Exhibition History
content: Korean Influences on Japanese Slip-Decorated Ceramics (February 16, 1984 to November 9, 1984)
label: Previous custodian or owner
content: Bunkio Matsuki 松木文恭 (1867-1940) (C.L. Freer source)
label: Previous custodian or owner
content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)
place: label: Origin
content: Ureshino, Saga prefecture, Japan
topic: label: Topic
content: ceramic
label: Topic
content: crane
label: Topic
content: Karatsu ware, Mishima Karatsu type
label: Topic
content: Edo period (1615 - 1868)
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: F1896.43
objectType: label: Type
content: Vessel
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Stoneware with white slip and cobalt pigment under clear glaze
label: Dimensions
content: H x Diam: 4.5 × 13.9 cm (1 3/4 × 5 1/2 in)
label: Style
content: Karatsu ware, Mishima type