Tamba ware tea-leaf storage jar
date: label: Date
content: late 17th century
label: Period
content: Edo period
notes: label: Description
content: Tea jar: inverted pear shape with short wide neck and slightly flaring lip. Three lugs on shoulder.
label: Description
content: Clay: medium stoneware, fired glossy reddish brown. Five large stacking scars on base.
label: Description
content: Glaze: thick mottled olive green ash glaze (ameyu [Jpn]) with purple splashes flowing at random down from the shoulder, over all-over coating of iron-slip glaze (akadobe [Jpn]).
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. 95, 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 Peacock Room Comes to America [2022] (September 3, 2022 - ongoing)
label: Exhibition History
content: The Peacock Room Comes to America [2017-2019] (October 14, 2017 to January 2, 2019)
label: Exhibition History
content: The Peacock Room Comes to America [2011-2016] (April 9, 2011 to January 4, 2016)
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: Tachiku, Hyogo prefecture, Japan
topic: label: Topic
content: ceramic
label: Topic
content: Tamba ware
label: Topic
content: Edo period (1615 - 1868)
label: Topic
content: tea
label: Topic
content: Japan
label: Topic
content: stoneware
label: Topic
content: Japanese Art
label: Topic
content: Charles Lang Freer collection
setName: label: Related Online Resources
content: Google Arts & Culture
label: Related Online Resources
content: The Story of the Beautiful
label: See more items in
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: F1899.9
objectType: label: Type
content: Vessel
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Stoneware with slip glaze and ash glaze
label: Dimensions
content: H x Diam: 29.1 × 24.2 cm (11 7/16 × 9 1/2 in)
label: Style
content: Tamba ware