Tea bowl in mishima style, Karatsu ware
date: label: Date
content: 1630-1650
label: Period
content: Edo period
notes: label: Description
content: Tea bowl, deep ovoidal, on high notched base. Gold lacquer repair on rim.
label: Description
content: Clay: hard, gray.
label: Description
content: Glaze: bright, gray; lightly crackled.
label: Description
content: Decoration: inlaid in under-glaze white, on both surfaces.
label: Label
content: Made at one of the kilns in southern Japan established by immigrant Korean potters, this bowl uses a Korean decorative technique of enduring popularity. Known in Japan as mishima, the decoration employs white clay solution (slip) brushed over stamped or incised motifs to create subtly irregular patterns. The vessel is then coated with clear glaze, through which the patterns may be seen.
label: Provenance
content: To 1897
label: Provenance
content: Yamanaka & Company, New York to 1897 [1]
label: Provenance
content: From 1897 to 1919
label: Provenance
content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Yamanaka & Company in 1897 [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. 527, 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: Freer and Tea: 100 Years of The Book of Tea (November 19, 2005 to May 29, 2006)
label: Exhibition History
content: Japanese Art (November 7, 1986 to July 19, 1988)
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 or Fukuoka prefecture, Japan
topic: label: Topic
content: inlay (process)
label: Topic
content: ceramic
label: Topic
content: Agano ware
label: Topic
content: Karatsu ware
label: Topic
content: Takatori ware
label: Topic
content: Edo period (1615 - 1868)
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: F1897.80
objectType: label: Type
content: Vessel
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Stoneware with white slip inlaid under clear glaze
label: Dimensions
content: H x Diam: 9.3 × 13.7 cm (3 11/16 × 5 3/8 in)
label: Style
content: Karatsu, Agano, or Takatori ware, Mishima type