Mino ware bowl with pedestal foot, Oribe style

Object Details

• Description

  Light gray clay.

  Underglaze painted decoration in two tones of iron pigment; on inside, blossoming plum branch; on outside, two sprays of leaves.

  Clear glaze, glossy, crackled, and of even thickness; fingerprints in glaze around lower edge of body; foot entirely glazed. Thick dribbles of copper-tinted green ash glaze applied to rim and inside.

  Gold lacquer repairs on rim, body, and foot.

• Provenance

  To 1896

  Yamanaka & Company, New York to 1896 [1]

  From 1896 to 1919

  Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Yamanaka & Company in 1896 [2]

  From 1920

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

  Notes:

  [1] See Original Pottery List, L. 477, 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

  Freer’s Global Network: Artists, Collectors, and Dealers (October 15, 2022 - ongoing)

  Oribe Ware: Color and Pattern in Japanese Ceramics (December 13, 2014 to June 14, 2015)

  Japanese Ceramics from Seto and Mino (January 19, 1996 to August 5, 2001)

  The Glazed Ceramic Tradition of Mino and Seto Wares (April 26, 1985 to January 13, 1986)

  Centennial Exhibition, Galleries 3 and 4 (February 25, 1956 to January 1, 1963)

• Previous custodian or owner

  Yamanaka and Co. 山中商会 (1917-1965) (C.L. Freer source)

  Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)

• Origin

  Yashichida kiln, Ogaya kiln group, Kani city, Gifu prefecture, Japan

• Credit Line

  Gift of Charles Lang Freer

• Type

  Vessel

• On View

  Freer Gallery 09: Freer’s Global Network

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• Name

  Freer, Charles Lang, Yamanaka and Co.

• Place

  Kani city, Yashichida kiln, Japan, Gifu prefecture, Ogaya kiln group

• Topic

  Charles Lang Freer collection, Art, Lacquer repair, Stoneware, Edo period, Japan, (1600 - 1868), Japanese Art, Lacquer, Mino ware, Oribe type, Ceramics

• Culture

  Japanese

• Object Type

  Vessels (containers)

• On View

  Yes