Taizan ware sake bottle for domestic Shinto shrine

Object Details

• Artist

  Taizan Yohei

• Description

  Sake bottle for domestic Shinto shrine (miki-tokkuri [Jpn]), cylindrical, with bulbous shoulder

  Clay: fine, hard, cream-colored under glaze

  Glaze: transluscent, minutely crackled in brown

  Decoration: in blue and black (underglaze cobalt and underglaze iron)

  Mark: Taizan [Jpn], impressed on footrim

• Marks

  Taizan [Jpn], impressed on footrim

• Provenance

  To 1898

  A.D. Vorce and Co., Hartford, CT, to 1898 [1]

  From 1898 to 1919

  Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from A.D. Vorce and Co. in 1898 [2]

  From 1920

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

  Notes:

  [1] See Original Pottery List, L. 254, 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

  Kyoto Ceramics (November 9, 1984 to April 25, 1985)

• Previous custodian or owner

  A. D. Vorce and Co. (C.L. Freer source)

  Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)

• Origin

  Awataguchi, Kyoto, Kyoto prefecture, Japan

• Credit Line

  Gift of Charles Lang Freer

• Type

  Vessel

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• Name

  Freer, Charles Lang, A. D. Vorce and Co.

• Place

  Kyoto, Japan, Awataguchi, Kyoto prefecture

• Topic

  Wine and wine making, Cobalt pigment, Art, Stoneware, Kyoto ware, Edo period, Japan, (1600 - 1868), Japanese Art, Shinto, Iron pigment, Sake

• Culture

  Japanese

• Object Type

  Vessels (containers)