Tea bowl with design of autumn grasses

Object Details

• Artist

  Kashu Mimpei (1796-1871)

• Description

  Tea-bowl, ovoidal; deep flaring foot, notched.

  Clay: hard, dense, whitish.

  Glaze: lustrous warm cream, finely crackled.

  Decorations: floral, enameled in colors and gold, over glaze.

  Seal: Mimpei.

• Marks

  Seal: Mimpei

• Label

  The flowering autumnal plants on this tea bowl continue an ancient motif favored on enamel decorated Kyoto and Kyoto-style ceramics, as well as on decorated lacquer and textiles. The decorator was skilled at naturalistic rendering of the chrysanthemums, pampas grass, and other plants.

• Provenance

  To 1893

  Tozo Takayanagi, New York to 1893 [1]

  From 1893 to 1919

  Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Tozo Takayanagi in 1893 [2]

  From 1920

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

  Notes:

  [1] See Original Pottery List, L. 300, 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

  Tea Bowls in Bloom: Botanical Decoration on Tea Ceremony Ceramics (February 3 to July 15, 2007)

• Previous custodian or owner

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

  Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)

• Origin

  Awaji island, Hyogo prefecture, Japan

• Credit Line

  Gift of Charles Lang Freer

• Type

  Vessel

• Restrictions and Rights

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• Name

  Freer, Charles Lang, Takayanagi, Tozo

• Place

  Awaji island, Hyogo prefecture, Japan

• Topic

  Tea, Charles Lang Freer collection, Art, Autumn, Stoneware, Mimpei ware, Edo period, Japan, (1600 - 1868), Japanese Art, Ceramics, Flowers, Grasses

• Culture

  Japanese

• Object Type

  Vessels (containers)