Korakuen ware tea bowl

Object Details

• Artist

  Yasuke Kyuraku II

• Description

  Tea-bowl, low foot. Gold lacquer repair.

  Clay: soft buff-gray, Raku type.

  Glaze: brilliant sealing-wax red, with semi-transparent crackled overflow of yellowish gray-white, shot with greenish gray.

• Marks

  Seal: "Koraku"

• Inscriptions

  Incised cipher "Kyu"

  Incised cipher "Kyu"

• Provenance

  To 1895

  Tozo Takayanagi, New York to 1895 [1]

  From 1895 to 1919

  Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Tozo Takayanagi in 1895 [2]

  From 1920

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

  Notes:

  [1] See Original Pottery List, L. 305, 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

  Artists of Edo (November 19, 2005 to May 29, 2006)

  The Idea of China in Japan: The Tea Ceremony in Japan (December 19, 1999 to June 11, 2000)

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

  Japanese Ceramics from Past to Present (February 18, 1983 to February 16, 1984)

• Previous custodian or owner

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

  Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)

• Origin

  Tokyo, Japan

• Credit Line

  Gift of Charles Lang Freer

• Type

  Vessel

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• Name

  Freer, Charles Lang, Takayanagi, Tozo

• Place

  Tokyo, Japan

• Topic

  Tea, Art, Edo period, Japan, (1600 - 1868), Japanese Art, Pottery, Korakuen ware

• Culture

  Japanese

• Object Type

  Vessels (containers)