Jar with design of fence and grasses, Karatsu ware, E-Karatsu type
date: label: Date
content: 1596-1615
label: Period
content: Momoyama period
notes: label: Description
content: Jar, ovoid with slight lip; thick, uneven flat foot; gold lacquer repairs.
label: Description
content: Clay: coarse stoneware, fired dark reddish brown.
label: Description
content: Glaze: medium gray with fine crackle; very patchy outside, some on foot; smooth and uniform inside.
label: Description
content: Decoration: grass tufts sketchily painted underglaze in iron.
label: Label
content: This jar represents the earliest type of iron-decorated stoneware made at the Karatsu kilns. Immigrant Korean potters, who set up these kilns, introduced both vessel forms and simple decoration associated with utilitarian wares made at provincial Korean kilns. Small storage vessels like this one, supplied with lacquered lids, were used as tea utensils.
label: Provenance
content: To 1898
label: Provenance
content: Rufus E. Moore, New York to 1898 [1]
label: Provenance
content: From 1898 to 1919
label: Provenance
content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Rufus E. Moore 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. 196, 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: Tea Bowls in Bloom: Botanical Decoration on Tea Ceremony Ceramics (February 3 to July 15, 2007)
label: Previous custodian or owner
content: Rufus E. Moore (1840-1918) (C.L. Freer source)
label: Previous custodian or owner
content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)
place: label: Origin
content: Saga prefecture, Japan
topic: label: Topic
content: lacquer
label: Topic
content: ceramic
label: Topic
content: Karatsu ware, E-karatsu type
label: Topic
content: Momoyama period (1573 - 1615)
label: Topic
content: Japan
label: Topic
content: stoneware
label: Topic
content: Japanese Art
label: Topic
content: lacquer repair
label: Topic
content: Charles Lang Freer collection
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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: F1898.82a-b
objectType: label: Type
content: Vessel
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Stoneware with iron pigment under ash glaze; gold lacquer repairs
label: Dimensions
content: H x Diam: 13.3 × 15.6 cm (5 1/4 × 6 1/8 in)
label: Style
content: Karatsu ware, E-Karatsu type