Tea bowl in style of Hon'ami Koetsu, unknown Raku ware workshop
date: label: Date
content: 18th century
label: Period
content: Edo period
notes: label: Description
content: Deep cylindrical tea bowl, retired foot.
label: Description
content: Gold lacquer repair.
label: Description
content: Clay: soft, grayish, Raku type.
label: Description
content: Glaze: grayish yellow-pink; dark crackle. Faint iridescence. Red Raku glaze.
label: Label
content: The Kyoto calligrapher, connoisseur, and sword polisher Koetsu (1558-1637) created large, irregular tea bowls whose appealing forms inspired countless later copies. As Koetsu himself had done, the person who made this bowl probably collaborated with a professional Raku-ware workshop to have the bowl glazed and fired.
label: Provenance
content: To 1898
label: Provenance
content: Bunkio Matsuki (1867-1940), Boston, to 1898 [1]
label: Provenance
content: From 1898 to 1919
label: Provenance
content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Bunkio Matsuki in 1898 [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. 445, 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: The Koetsu Tea Bowl (May 15, 1998 to June 23, 2005)
label: Exhibition History
content: An Invitation to Tea (November 9, 1996 to April 26, 1998)
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: Kyoto, Japan
topic: label: Topic
content: iridescence
label: Topic
content: ceramic
label: Topic
content: Raku ware
label: Topic
content: Edo period (1615 - 1868)
label: Topic
content: tea
label: Topic
content: Japan
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: F1898.444
objectType: label: Type
content: Vessel
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Red Raku-type clay with red slip under colorless glaze
label: Dimensions
content: H x Diam: 10.3 × 11 cm (4 1/16 × 4 5/16 in)
label: Style
content: Raku ware, unknown workshop