Karatsu ware tea-leaf storage jar with five loop lugs

Object Details

• Description

  Jar, ovoidal with high conical neck, flanged lip, five loop handles on shoulder.

  Clay: coarse dark brown stoneware.

  Glaze: robin's egg green with blue flecks and blotches two-thirds of the way down, clear below and on foot, fine crackle.

• Provenance

  To 1899

  Yamanaka & Company, New York, NY, to 1899 [1]

  From 1899 to 1919

  Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Yamanaka & Company in 1899 [2]

  From 1920

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

  Notes:

  [1] See Original Pottery List, L. 24, 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)

  Parades: Freer Ceramics Installed by Gwyn Hanssen Pigott (November 4, 2006 to January 7, 2008)

  The Idea of China in Japan: The Tea Ceremony in Japan (December 19, 1999 to June 11, 2000)

• Previous custodian or owner

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

  Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)

• Origin

  Shirokibaru no. 2 kiln, Takeo, Saga 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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• Name

  Freer, Charles Lang, Yamanaka and Co.

• Place

  Takeo, Japan, Saga prefecture, Shirokibaru no. 2 kiln

• Topic

  Karatsu ware, Takeo Karatsu type, Tea, Art, Stoneware, Edo period, Japan, (1600 - 1868), Japanese Art

• Culture

  Japanese

• Object Type

  Vessels (containers)

• On View

  Yes