Tea bowl, unknown Raku ware workshop

Object Details

• Artist

  Doraku

• Description

  Raku type ware, unknown kiln.

  Tea-bowl, very deep cylindrical; low foot. Gold lacquer repairs.

  Clay: soft, dense, grayish.

  Glaze: brilliant thick black, revealing yellow under.

  Inscription incised in paste.

• Inscriptions

  The inscription incised in the side of the bowl under the black glaze appears to read:

  Yamagami-ko no mei ni yori Doraku saku

  [JPN]

  Made by Doraku upon order of Lord Yamagami

• Provenance

  To 1894

  Tozo Takayanagi, New York to 1894 [1]

  From 1894 to 1919

  Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Tozo Takayanagi in 1894 [2]

  From 1920

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

  Notes:

  [1] See Original Pottery List, L. 304, 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

• Previous custodian or owner

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

  Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)

• Origin

  Kyoto or Sakai, Japan

• Credit Line

  Gift of Charles Lang Freer

• Type

  Vessel

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• Name

  Freer, Charles Lang, Takayanagi, Tozo

• Place

  Kyoto, Japan, Sakai

• Topic

  Tea, Charles Lang Freer collection, Art, Lacquer repair, Edo period, Japan, (1600 - 1868), Japanese Art, Lacquer, Ceramics, Raku ware

• Culture

  Japanese

• Object Type

  Vessels (containers)