Satsuma ware tea caddy

Object Details

• Description

  Tea caddy (chaire), elongated pear-shape. Ivory cover.

  Clay: hard, vibrant, grayish-white.

  Glaze: gray-white and dark yellow under glaze; heavy overflow of yellow-olive and seal-brown, flecked with white and blue. Red-brown wash on lower body.

  Weighed by Matsumura Makiko: 110.49 grams.

  Brown, white, and black glazes applied in layers. Interior glazed. String-cut base (wheel revolving counter-clockwise).

• Provenance

  To 1898

  Yamanaka & Company, New York to 1898 [1]

  From 1898 to 1919

  Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Yamanaka & Company in 1898 [2]

  From 1920

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

  Notes:

  [1] See Original Pottery List, L. 733, 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)

  Rusticity Refined: Kyoto Ceramics by Ninsei (March 19 to October 23, 2005)

  Garden Potteries and Official Kilns: Clan-Sponsored Ceramics in the Edo Period (January 16, 1986 to November 3, 1986)

• Previous custodian or owner

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

  Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)

• Origin

  Tateno kiln group, Uto or Osato kiln, Kagoshima prefecture, Japan

• Credit Line

  Gift of Charles Lang Freer

• Type

  Vessel

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• Name

  Freer, Charles Lang, Yamanaka and Co.

• Place

  Uto, Osato kiln, Tateno kiln group, Japan, Kagoshima prefecture

• Topic

  Tea, Rice-straw-ash glaze, Charles Lang Freer collection, Art, Satsuma ware, Old Chosa type, Ivory, Stoneware, Edo period, Japan, (1600 - 1868), Japanese Art, Ceramics, Iron wash

• Culture

  Japanese

• Object Type

  Vessels (containers)