Tea-ceremony water jar (<em>mizusashi</em>) with design of plum branches, Karatsu ware
date: label: Date
content: 1750-1850
label: Period
content: Edo period
notes: label: Description
content: Water-jar, ovoid. Black lacquer cover.
label: Description
content: Clay: dense, gray-white.
label: Description
content: Glaze: brilliant cream, finely crackled in dark brown.
label: Description
content: Decoration: in black, under glaze.
label: Label
content: The motif of blossoming plum branches on this jar was executed by a painter trained in the style practiced by the Kano workshops of professional painters. Kilns sponsored by warrior domains to produce elite wares for use in obligatory gift exchanges favored the Kano-style designs. The iron pigment on pale clay evokes the Chinese-style ink painting on paper, a specialty of Kano artists.
label: Provenance
content: To 1892
label: Provenance
content: Tozo Takayanagi, New York to 1892 [1]
label: Provenance
content: From 1892 to 1919
label: Provenance
content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Tozo Takayanagi in 1892 [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, 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 Arts of Japan (July 14, 2012 to January 13, 2013)
label: Exhibition History
content: Seasons: Arts of Japan (February 5, 2011 to January 13, 2013)
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: Exhibition History
content: Japanese Ceramics (April 11, 1978 to January 17, 1980)
label: Exhibition History
content: Centennial Exhibition, Galleries 3 and 4 (February 25, 1956 to January 1, 1963)
label: Exhibition History
content: Untitled Exhibition, Japanese Art (October 3, 1947 to February 25, 1956)
label: Exhibition History
content: Untitled Exhibition, Japanese Art, 1946 (May 3, 1946 to October 6, 1947)
label: Exhibition History
content: Japanese and Korean Pottery, and Korean Bronze (May 2, 1923 to March 22, 1943)
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: Nakazato kiln, Karatsu, Saga prefecture, Japan
topic: label: Topic
content: lacquer
label: Topic
content: ceramic
label: Topic
content: Edo period (1615 - 1868)
label: Topic
content: water
label: Topic
content: tea
label: Topic
content: Japan
label: Topic
content: stoneware
label: Topic
content: Japanese Art
label: Topic
content: Karatsu ware, Kenjo Karatsu type
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: F1892.27a-c
objectType: label: Type
content: Vessel
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Stoneware with iron pigment under transparent colorless glaze; lacquered wooden lid
label: Dimensions
content: H x Diam: 15.4 × 18.2 cm (6 1/16 × 7 3/16 in)
label: Style
content: Karatsu ware, Kenjo Karatsu type