Tea bowl, possibly Rakuzan ware
date: label: Date
content: 17th-mid 19th century
label: Period
content: Edo period
notes: label: Description
content: Broadly flaring, with low foot. Five spur marks within. Gold lacquer repairs.
label: Description
content: Clay: dense, grayish white. Brown on surface.
label: Description
content: Glaze: ash glaze. Soft blend of gray, cream, and old-rose, of brilliant lustre; crackled. Glazed foot; crawling around base and foot. Five spur marks in bottom. Five spur marks on foot rim.
label: Provenance
content: To 1898
label: Provenance
content: Yamanaka & Company, New York to 1898 [1]
label: Provenance
content: From 1898 to 1919
label: Provenance
content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Yamanaka & Company 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. 747, 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: Japanese Ceramics from Past to Present (February 18, 1983 to February 16, 1984)
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: Japan
topic: label: Topic
content: lacquer
label: Topic
content: ceramic
label: Topic
content: Edo period (1615 - 1868)
label: Topic
content: tea
label: Topic
content: Rakuzan ware
label: Topic
content: Japan
label: Topic
content: stoneware
label: Topic
content: wood-ash glaze
label: Topic
content: Japanese Art
label: Topic
content: lacquer repair
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: F1898.73
objectType: label: Type
content: Vessel
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Stoneware with wood-ash glaze; gold lacquer repairs
label: Dimensions
content: H x Diam: 6.6 × 16.9 cm (2 5/8 × 6 5/8 in)
label: Style
content: Possibly Rakuzan ware