Shigaraki ware tea-leaf storage jar

Object Details

• Description

  Tea-leaf storage jar (hacha-tsubo, [Jpn]). Jar, tall ovoid, with five small loop handles.

  Clay: dense, light gray

  Glaze: white, with faint pinkish and greenish casts, merging into dark brownish-pink, thickly speckled with white; crackled

• 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. 18, 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

  Rinpa Screens (February 25, 2023 to February 4, 2024)

  Storage Jars (March 15, 2014 to June 28, 2015)

  Storage Jars of Asia (October 29, 2000 to March 10, 2002)

  Untitled Exhibition, Japanese Art (October 3, 1947 to February 25, 1956)

  Untitled Exhibition, Japanese Art, 1946 (May 3, 1946 to October 6, 1947)

  Japanese Paintings and Pottery (May 2, 1923 to December 8, 1941)

• Previous custodian or owner

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

  Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)

• Origin

  Shigaraki, Shiga prefecture, Japan

• Credit Line

  Gift of Charles Lang Freer

• Type

  Vessel

• On View

  Freer Gallery 05: Rinpa Screens

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• Name

  Freer, Charles Lang, Yamanaka and Co.

• Place

  Shiga prefecture, Japan, Shigaraki

• Topic

  Tea, Art, Stoneware, Shigaraki ware, Edo period, Japan, (1600 - 1868), Japanese Art

• Culture

  Japanese

• Object Type

  Vessels (containers)

• On View

  Yes