Tea bowl in Korean style, Karatsu ware

Object Details

• Description

  Light brown clay, darkened on exposed surface.

  Clear glaze, gray-green and suffused with opalescent blue where thick. Glaze applied by dipping bowl three times, forming irregular outline around foot. Irregular patch of glaze on foot.

  Two gold lacquer repairs on lip and vertical crack.

• Provenance

  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. 327, 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

  Cornucopia: Ceramics of Southern Japan (December 19, 2009 to January 9, 2011)

  Freer and Tea II: Raku, Hagi, Karatsu (July 8, 2006 to January 1, 2007)

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

• Previous custodian or owner

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

  Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)

• Origin

  Fukuoka 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

  Fukuoka prefecture, Japan

• Topic

  Tea, Takatori ware, Art, Momoyama period (1573 - 1615), Lacquer repair, Stoneware, Edo period, Japan, (1600 - 1868), Japanese Art, Pottery

• Culture

  Japanese

• Object Type

  Vessels (containers)