Object Details
Description
Light gray clay, fine grained and hard. Concentrically trimmed base. Four lugs on shoulder. Single line incised at base of neck; broad band of decorative combing below angle of shoulder. Impressed mark on base shaped like "walnut meat" (kurumi-in). Opaque brown iron glaze, stopping well above foot, splashed with ash glaze that appears black where well melted, yellow-brown where incompletely melted. Some kiln debris on shoulder. Inside inglazed.
Inscriptions
Impressed mark on base shaped like "walnut meat" (kurumi-in).
Provenance
To 1900
Hayashi Tadamasa, (1853 -1906), Paris, to 1900 [1]
From 1900 to 1919
Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Hayashi Tadamasa in 1900 [2]
From 1920
Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [3]
Notes:
[1] See Original Pottery List, L. 782, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives.
[2] See note 1.
[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.
Collection
Freer Gallery of Art Collection
Exhibition History
Storage Jars (March 15, 2014 to June 28, 2015)
The Potter's Mark: Tea Ceramics and Their Makers (August 18, 2007 to February 24, 2008)
Japanese Ceramics from Seto and Mino (January 19, 1996 to August 5, 2001)
Previous custodian or owner
Hayashi Tadamasa 林 忠正? (1853-1906) (C.L. Freer source)
Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)
Credit Line
Gift of Charles Lang Freer
Date
1624-1644
Period
Edo period
Accession Number
F1900.51
Restrictions & Rights
Usage conditions apply
Type
Vessel
Medium
Stoneware with iron and ash glazes
Dimensions
H x Diam: 29.1 × 25 cm (11 7/16 × 9 7/8 in)
Style
Mino ware
Origin
Dachi or Okawa kilns, Toki or Mizunami city, Gifu prefecture, Japan
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Data Source
National Museum of Asian Art
Topic
ceramic
Mino ware
Edo period (1615 - 1868)
tea
Japan
stoneware
Japanese Art
Charles Lang Freer collection
Link to Original Record
Record ID
fsg_F1900.51