Tea ceremony water jar
date: label: Date
content: 1660-1670
label: Period
content: Edo period
notes: label: Description
content: Tea-ceremony water jar (mizusashi), globular. Cover with lotus-petal finial. Gold lacquer repairs.
label: Description
content: Clay: coarse, gray, brown where exposed. Stoneware.
label: Description
content: Glaze: lustrous gray, with tinges of pinkish-brown and blue; boldly cracled; thin white slip under glaze.
label: Description
content: Decoration: landscape and floral forms in rich, dark blue, under glaze.
label: Provenance
content: To 1899
label: Provenance
content: Yamanaka & Company, New York 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. 27, 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: Garden Potteries and Official Kilns: Clan-Sponsored Ceramics in the Edo Period (January 16, 1986 to November 3, 1986)
label: Exhibition History
content: Japanese Ceramics (April 11, 1978 to January 17, 1980)
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: Saga prefecture, Japan
topic: label: Topic
content: ceramic
label: Topic
content: landscape
label: Topic
content: flower
label: Topic
content: Arita ware
label: Topic
content: Edo period (1615 - 1868)
label: Topic
content: water
label: Topic
content: tea
label: Topic
content: Japan
label: Topic
content: stoneware
label: Topic
content: white slip
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: F1899.4a-b
objectType: label: Type
content: Vessel
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Stoneware with white slip and cobalt decoration under transparent colorless glaze
label: Dimensions
content: H x Diam: 21.6 × 21.5 cm (8 1/2 × 8 7/16 in)
label: Style
content: Arita ware, totai sometsuke type