Yatsushiro or Shodai ware vase in the form of an archaic Chinese cong
date: label: Date
content: 1700-1800
label: Period
content: Edo period
notes: label: Description
content: Flower vase, tall, square, with round neck and thick lip.
label: Description
content: Clay: fine, fired dark reddish brown.
label: Description
content: Glaze: copper green mottled with black above; yellowish buff below.
label: Description
content: Decoration: two rows of deep notches down each side.
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. 111, 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: Fukuoka prefecture or Kumamoto prefecture, Japan
topic: label: Topic
content: ceramic
label: Topic
content: flower
label: Topic
content: Agano ware
label: Topic
content: Shodai ware
label: Topic
content: Edo period (1615 - 1868)
label: Topic
content: Japan
label: Topic
content: stoneware
label: Topic
content: copper-green glaze
label: Topic
content: rice-straw-ash glaze
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: F1897.53
objectType: label: Type
content: Vessel
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Stoneware with rice-straw ash and copper-green glazes
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 23.7 x 8.3 cm (9 5/16 x 3 1/4 in)
label: Style
content: Agano or Shodai ware