Object Details
Description
Tea jar: inverted pear shape with short wide neck and slightly flaring lip. Three lugs on shoulder.
Clay: medium stoneware, fired glossy reddish brown. Five large stacking scars on base.
Glaze: thick mottled olive green ash glaze (ameyu [Jpn]) with purple splashes flowing at random down from the shoulder, over all-over coating of iron-slip glaze (akadobe [Jpn]).
Provenance
To 1899
Yamanaka & Company, New York to 1899 [1]
From 1899 to 1919
Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Yamanaka & Company in 1899 [2]
From 1920
Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [3]
Notes:
[1] See Original Pottery List, L. 95, 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
The Peacock Room Comes to America [2022] (September 3, 2022 - September 14, 2025)
The Peacock Room Comes to America [2017-2019] (October 14, 2017 to January 2, 2019)
The Peacock Room Comes to America [2011-2016] (April 9, 2011 to January 4, 2016)
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
late 17th century
Period
Edo period
Accession Number
F1899.9
Restrictions & Rights
CC0
Type
Vessel
Medium
Stoneware with slip glaze and ash glaze
Dimensions
H x Diam: 29.1 × 24.2 cm (11 7/16 × 9 1/2 in)
Style
Tamba ware
Origin
Tachiku, Hyogo prefecture, Japan
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Data Source
National Museum of Asian Art
Topic
ceramic
Tamba ware
Edo period (1615 - 1868)
tea
Japan
stoneware
Japanese Art
Charles Lang Freer collection
Link to Original Record
Record ID
fsg_F1899.9