Jar with "octopus vinescroll" decoration

Object Details

• Description

  Jar, globular; large, deep fool. Black lacquer cover.

  Clay: hard, fine.

  Glaze: white darkening to deep cream, crackled in brown.

  Decoration: in blue, under glaze.

• Provenance

  To 1897

  Charles A. Dana (1819-1897), New York to 1897 [1]

  From 1898 to 1919

  Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased at auction, the Dana Collection Sale, American Art Galleries, New York February 24-26, 1898 [2]

  From 1920

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

  Notes:

  [1] See Original Pottery List, L. 133, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives.

  [2] See note 1. This object was probably No. 27 in the Dana Collection sale catalogue (see Curatorial Remark 10, Louise Cort, July 18, 2005, in the object record).

  [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

• Previous custodian or owner

  Charles A. Dana (1819-1897)

  Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)

• Origin

  Saga prefecture, Japan

• Credit Line

  Gift of Charles Lang Freer

• Type

  Vessel

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• Name

  Freer, Charles Lang, Dana, Charles A.

• Place

  Japan, Saga prefecture

• Topic

  Charles Lang Freer collection, Porcelain, Art, Arita ware, Edo period, Japan, (1600 - 1868), Japanese Art, Ceramics

• Culture

  Japanese

• Object Type

  Vessels (containers)