Tea ceremony water jar with matching lid

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Object Details

Description

Tea-ceremony water jar (mizusashi), quadrilateral; two loop handles. Pottery cover.

Clay: hard, light gray. String-cut base.

Glaze: clear with green tints, crackled.

Decoration: modeled running-water lines in paste; painted brown, and blue, under glaze; reeds and water.

Provenance

Mr. Funahashi, Kyoto [1]

To 1903

Bunkio Matsuki (1867-1940), Boston, to 1903 [2]

From 1903 to 1919

Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Bunkio Matsuki in 1903 [3]

From 1920

Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [4]

Notes:

[1] Curatorial Remarks, Louise A. Cort, 1986: Freer acquired, through Matsuki, five pieces from the Funahashi collection (F1903.275--F1903.279). An undated "List of Shipment" from Matsuki (Matsuki letter no. 30) gives the following: "Following five important pottery are from the sale of Late Mr. Funahashi of Kioto famous wholesale silk dealer for many generation. The sale was under the management of Mr. Shinsuke Hayashi from whom your great Sotatsu screen came."

[2] See Original Pottery List, L. 1278, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives.

[3] See note 2.

[4] 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

Funahashi

Bunkio Matsuki 松木文恭 (1867-1940) (C.L. Freer source)

Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)

Credit Line

Gift of Charles Lang Freer

Date

1800-1868

Period

Edo period

Accession Number

F1903.278a-b

Restrictions & Rights

Usage conditions apply

Type

Vessel

Medium

Stoneware with iron and cobalt pigments under translucent glaze

Dimensions

H x W: 20.3 x 14.4 cm (8 x 5 11/16 in)

Style

Seto ware, Ofuke type

Origin

Seto, Aichi prefecture, Japan

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Data Source

National Museum of Asian Art

Topic

ceramic

Edo period (1615 - 1868)

water

tea

Japan

stoneware

Japanese Art