Akahada ware tea bowl with design of standing cranes
date: label: Date
content: 1800-1850
label: Period
content: Edo period
notes: label: Description
content: Tea bowl, notched. Mishima technique. Gohon type with crane design (gohon tachizuru chawan [Jpn])
label: Description
content: Clay: dense, resonant, grayish-white.
label: Description
content: Glaze: greenish-gray, flushed with pink, dappled in cream yellow.
label: Description
content: Decorations: cranes, incised, partially filled with white paste, and touched with brown, under glaze.
label: Description
content: Seal. Gourd-shaped seal, "Akahada" [Jpn]
label: Marks
content: Gourd-shaped seal, "Akahada" [Jpn]
label: Provenance
content: To 1896
label: Provenance
content: Yamanaka & Company, New York to 1896 [1]
label: Provenance
content: From 1896 to 1919
label: Provenance
content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Yamanaka & Company in 1896 [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. 475, 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: Feathered Ink (August 27, 2022 to February 20, 2023)
label: Exhibition History
content: Korean Style in Japanese Ceramics (August 23, 2013 to February 9, 2014)
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: Korean Influences on Japanese Slip-Decorated Ceramics (February 16, 1984 to November 9, 1984)
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: Nara prefecture, Japan
topic: label: Topic
content: inlay (process)
label: Topic
content: ceramic
label: Topic
content: crane
label: Topic
content: Akahada 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: 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: F1896.86
objectType: label: Type
content: Vessel
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Stoneware with white inlay and black pigment under clear glaze
label: Dimensions
content: H x Diam: 8.8 x 12.2 cm (3 7/16 x 4 13/16 in)
label: Style
content: Akahada ware