Tea bowl named Ochiba (Fallen Leaves), Takatori or Yatsushiro ware
date: label: Date
content: 1630-1650
label: Period
content: Edo period
notes: label: Description
content: Tea bowl, almost cylindrical with straight sides tapering slightly inward and high, square-cut foot.
label: Description
content: Name: Ochiba [Jpn].
label: Description
content: Clay: gray stoneware, medium texture, fired reddish brown.
label: Description
content: Glaze: yellowish buff and iron brown with rust-like patches and some greenish flow. Foot unglazed.
label: Description
content: Decoration: glaze only.
label: Label
content: The potter applied three different glazes to achieve a patchwork effect popular on ceramics, textiles, and lacquered objects of the early seventeenth century. The bowl's name, Fallen Leaves, refers to this mottled coloration-or perhaps to the inspired addition of the "finger-painted" spots. Freer appreciated this "very beautiful specimen."
label: Provenance
content: To 1897
label: Provenance
content: Bunkio Matsuki (1867-1940), Boston, to 1897 [1]
label: Provenance
content: From 1897 to 1919
label: Provenance
content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Bunkio Matsuki in 1897 [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: 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 Art (November 7, 1986 to July 19, 1988)
label: Exhibition History
content: Japanese and Chinese Lacquer (September 22, 1982 to June 30, 1983)
label: Exhibition History
content: Japanese Lacquer (April 16, 1979 to October 8, 1980)
label: Exhibition History
content: Japanese Ceramics (April 11, 1978 to January 17, 1980)
label: Previous custodian or owner
content: Bunkio Matsuki 松木文恭 (1867-1940) (C.L. Freer source)
label: Previous custodian or owner
content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)
place: label: Origin
content: possibly Shirahatayama kiln, Fukuoka prefecture, Japan
topic: label: Topic
content: ceramic
label: Topic
content: Takatori 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: F1897.34
objectType: label: Type
content: Vessel
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Stoneware with iron, rice-straw-ash, and wood-ash glazes
label: Dimensions
content: H x Diam: 8.1 × 10.9 cm (3 3/16 × 4 5/16 in)
label: Style
content: Takatori ware