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Tea bowl

Asian Art Museum

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    Object Details

    Description

    Tea bowl, deep ovoidal; heavy foot notched in three places.
    Clay: hard, gray, coarse-grained.
    Glaze: white slip under clear glaze (kohiki technique); crackled. Fissured and pitted.

    Provenance

    To 1901
    Siegfried Bing (1838-1905), Paris to 1901 [1]
    From 1901 to 1919
    Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Siegfried Bing, Paris in 1901
    From 1920
    Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [3]
    Notes:
    [1] See Original Pottery List, L. 951, 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

    Parades: Freer Ceramics Installed by Gwyn Hanssen Pigott (November 4, 2006 to January 7, 2008)
    Japanese Art (May 9, 1993 to November 21, 1995)
    Korean Influences on Japanese Slip-Decorated Ceramics (February 16, 1984 to November 9, 1984)

    Previous custodian or owner

    Siegfried Bing (1838-1905) (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

    F1901.72

    Restrictions & Rights

    Usage conditions apply

    Type

    Vessel

    Medium

    Stoneware with white slip under clear glaze

    Dimensions

    H x Diam: 9.6 × 11.5 cm (3 3/4 × 4 1/2 in)

    Origin

    Japan

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    National Museum of Asian Art

    Data Source

    National Museum of Asian Art

    Topic

    ceramic
    Edo period (1615 - 1868)
    tea
    Japan
    stoneware
    Japanese Art
    Charles Lang Freer collection

    Metadata Usage

    Not determined

    Link to Original Record

    http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ye3f825367a-3bc4-4dc7-9263-fa7939d91748

    Record ID

    fsg_F1901.72

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