Bottle with inlaid design of orchids
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Period
1830-1860 -
Geography
Yatsushiro, Kumamoto prefecture, Japan -
Material
Stoneware with white slip inlaid under clear glaze -
Dimension
H x Diam: 22.8 × 15.2 cm (9 × 6 in) -
Accession Number
F1898.140 -
EDAN ID
edanmdm:fsg_F1898.140
Object Details
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Artist
Agano Yaguma (1795-1871) -
Description
Bottle, ovoidal, flaring underbody, breaking into over-turned goblet form.Clay: dense, resonant, gray-white.Glaze: greenish gray with blackish areas; fine crackled.Decoration: inlaid with cream and pinkish-tan paste, under glaze. -
Provenance
To 1898Yamanaka & Company, New York to 1898 [1]From 1898 to 1919Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Yamanaka & Company in 1898 [2]From 1920Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [3]Notes:[1] See Original Pottery List, L. 702, 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
The Peacock Room Comes to America [2022] (September 3, 2022 - ongoing)The Peacock Room Comes to America [2017-2019] (October 14, 2017 to January 2, 2019)The Peacock Room Comes to America [2011-2016] (April 9, 2011 to January 4, 2016)Cornucopia: Ceramics of Southern Japan (December 19, 2009 to January 9, 2011)Selections from the Japanese Collection (March 22 to November 29, 1999)Korean Influences on Japanese Slip-Decorated Ceramics (February 16, 1984 to November 9, 1984) -
Previous custodian or owner
Yamanaka and Co. 山中商会 (1917-1965) (C.L. Freer source)Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919) -
Origin
Yatsushiro, Kumamoto prefecture, Japan -
Credit Line
Gift of Charles Lang Freer -
Type
Vessel -
On View
Freer Gallery 12: The Peacock Room Comes to America -
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