Object Details
Description
Small tea-ceremony water jar (mizusashi) with black lacquer cover.
Clay: hard, grayish. Lustrous brown on surface.
Glaze: brilliant yellow-brown, splashed with fawn streaked with blue, crackled.
Mark: incised lines on base.
Marks
incised lines on base.
Provenance
To 1909
Yamanaka & Company, Kyoto, to 1909 [1]
From 1909 to 1919
Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Yamanaka & Company in 1909 [2]
From 1920
Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [3]
Notes:
[1] See Original Pottery List, L. 2054, 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
Previous custodian or owner
Yamanaka and Co. 山中商会 (1917-1965) (C.L. Freer source)
Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)
Credit Line
Gift of Charles Lang Freer
Date
18th-19th century
Period
Edo period
Accession Number
F1909.358a-b
Restrictions & Rights
Usage conditions apply
Type
Vessel
Medium
Stoneware with iron and rice-straw ash glazes; lacquered wooden lid
Dimensions
H x Diam: 13.7 x 12.9 cm (5 3/8 x 5 1/16 in)
Style
Satsuma ware, Ryumonji kilns
Origin
Ryumonji kilns, Kajiki, Kagoshima prefecture, Japan
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Data Source
National Museum of Asian Art
Topic
lacquer
ceramic
Ryumonji ware
Edo period (1615 - 1868)
water
tea
Japan
stoneware
Japanese Art
Charles Lang Freer collection
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Record ID
fsg_F1909.358a-b