Object Details
Description
Tea-leaf storage jar (chatsubo). Jar, tall ovoid, with five small loop handles.
Clay: dense, light gray.
Glaze: white, with faint pinkish and greenish casts, merging into dark brownish-pink, thickly speckled with white; crackled.
Provenance
To 1898
Yamanaka & Company, New York to 1898 [1]
From 1898 to 1919
Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Yamanaka & Company in 1898 [2]
From 1920
Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [3]
Notes:
[1] See Original Pottery List, L. 18, 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
Rinpa Screens (February 25, 2023 to February 24, 2024)
Storage Jars (March 15, 2014 to June 28, 2015)
Storage Jars of Asia (October 29, 2000 to March 10, 2002)
Untitled Exhibition, Japanese Art (October 3, 1947 to February 25, 1956)
Untitled Exhibition, Japanese Art, 1946 (May 3, 1946 to October 6, 1947)
Japanese Paintings and Pottery (May 2, 1923 to December 8, 1941)
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
F1898.77
Restrictions & Rights
Usage conditions apply
Type
Vessel
Medium
Stoneware with rice-straw ash glaze
Dimensions
H x Diam: 36.4 × 32.6 cm (14 5/16 × 12 13/16 in)
Style
Shigaraki ware
Origin
Shigaraki, Shiga prefecture, Japan
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Data Source
National Museum of Asian Art
Topic
ceramic
Shigaraki ware
Edo period (1615 - 1868)
tea
Japan
stoneware
Japanese Art
Charles Lang Freer collection
Link to Original Record
Record ID
fsg_F1898.77