Tea bowl, possibly Agano ware
date: label: Date
content: 1620-1650
label: Period
content: Edo period
notes: label: Description
content: Tea bowl, goki shape, on high spreading foot. Gold lacquer repair.
label: Description
content: Clay: medium, fired grayish brown. Fine purplish cream color.
label: Description
content: Glaze: thin, transparent, fine crackle. Covers most of foot. Five shijimi shell spurmarks on footim.
label: Description
content: Decoration: brushed slip under the glaze.
label: Label
content: According to museum records, Charles Lang Freer believed this bowl was Hagi ware, but modern scholars still do not agree on where it was made. The streaks on the surface are the marks of a stiff brush that the potter rubbed over the bowl after he had dipped the bowl into white clay solution (slip). This is an unusual variation of the technique of brushing on slip with a coarse straw brush, which originated on utilitarian Korean pottery and became popular in Japan for tea utensils.
label: Provenance
content: To 1898
label: Provenance
content: Yamanaka & Company, New York to 1898 [1]
label: Provenance
content: From 1898 to 1919
label: Provenance
content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Yamanaka & Company 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. 557, 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 Screens (May 9, 1993 to November 13, 1995)
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: Saga or Fukuoka prefecture, Japan
topic: label: Topic
content: ceramic
label: Topic
content: Agano 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
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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: F1898.63
objectType: label: Type
content: Vessel
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Stoneware with white slip under wood-ash glaze
label: Dimensions
content: H x Diam: 8.4 × 14.8 cm (3 5/16 × 5 13/16 in)
label: Style
content: Karatsu ware or Agano ware