Korakuen ware tea bowl
date: label: Date
content: circa 1830-40
label: Period
content: Edo period
name: label: Artist
content: Yasuke Kyuraku II
notes: label: Description
content: Tea-bowl, low foot. Gold lacquer repair.
label: Description
content: Clay: soft buff-gray, Raku type.
label: Description
content: Glaze: brilliant sealing-wax red, with semi-transparent crackled overflow of yellowish gray-white, shot with greenish gray.
label: Marks
content: Seal: "Koraku"
label: Inscriptions
content: Incised cipher "Kyu"
label: Inscriptions
content: Incised cipher "Kyu"
label: Provenance
content: To 1895
label: Provenance
content: Tozo Takayanagi, New York to 1895 [1]
label: Provenance
content: From 1895 to 1919
label: Provenance
content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Tozo Takayanagi in 1895 [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. 305, 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: Artists of Edo (November 19, 2005 to May 29, 2006)
label: Exhibition History
content: The Idea of China in Japan: The Tea Ceremony in Japan (December 19, 1999 to June 11, 2000)
label: Exhibition History
content: Garden Potteries and Official Kilns: Clan-Sponsored Ceramics in the Edo Period (January 16, 1986 to November 3, 1986)
label: Exhibition History
content: Japanese Ceramics from Past to Present (February 18, 1983 to February 16, 1984)
label: Previous custodian or owner
content: Takayanagi Tozo 高柳陶造 (C.L. Freer source)
label: Previous custodian or owner
content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)
place: label: Origin
content: Tokyo, Japan
topic: label: Topic
content: ceramic
label: Topic
content: Korakuen ware
label: Topic
content: Edo period (1615 - 1868)
label: Topic
content: tea
label: Topic
content: Japan
label: Topic
content: earthenware
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: F1895.1
objectType: label: Type
content: Vessel
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Earthenware with Red Raku glaze
label: Dimensions
content: H x Diam: 7.3 × 11.7 cm (2 7/8 × 4 5/8 in)
label: Style
content: Korakuen ware