Sake bottle

Object Details

• Artist

  Decoration attributed to Kano Tangen (1679-1767)

• Description

  Bottle (tokkuri 徳利), octagonal, ovoidal.

  Clay: hard, white.

  Glaze: luminous cream-white; variable brown crackle.

  Decoration: in grayish tones, under glaze.

• Label

  The decoration on this bottle is attributed to the artist Kano Tangen, who served as the official painter for the Satsuma domain, where the bottle was made.

• Provenance

  To 1892

  Tozo Takayanagi, New York to 1892 [1]

  From 1892 to 1919

  Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Tozo Takayanagi in 1892 [2]

  From 1920

  Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [3]

  Notes:

  [1] See Original Pottery List, L. 93, 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 - ongoing)

  The Peacock Room Comes to America [2017-2019] (October 14, 2017 to January 2, 2019)

  Fine Impressions: Whistler, Freer, and Venice (October 18, 2014 to January 3, 2016)

  The Peacock Room Comes to America [2011-2016] (April 9, 2011 to January 4, 2016)

  Freer: A Taste for Japanese Art (July 1, 2006 to January 1, 2007)

  Whistler & Japan (May 14, 1995 to January 1, 1996)

  Garden Potteries and Official Kilns: Clan-Sponsored Ceramics in the Edo Period (January 16, 1986 to November 3, 1986)

  James McNeill Whistler at the Freer Gallery of Art: Artist and Patron (May 11, 1984 to January 17, 1985)

  Japanese Ceramics (April 11, 1978 to January 17, 1980)

• Previous custodian or owner

  Takayanagi Tozo 高柳陶造 (C.L. Freer source)

  Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)

• Origin

  Hiyamizu kiln, Kagoshima, Kagoshima prefecture, Japan

• Credit Line

  Gift of Charles Lang Freer

• Type

  Vessel

• On View

  Freer Gallery 12: The Peacock Room Comes to America

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• Name

  Freer, Charles Lang, Takayanagi, Tozo

• Place

  Kagoshima, Hiyamizu kiln, Japan, Kagoshima prefecture

• Topic

  Charles Lang Freer collection, Art, Stoneware, Satsuma ware, White Satsuma type, Edo period, Japan, (1600 - 1868), Japanese Art, Ceramics, Sake

• Culture

  Japanese

• Object Type

  Vessels (containers)

• On View

  Yes