Freshwater jar in the shape of a bucket with Mishima inlay

Object Details

• Description

  Water-jar, deep quadrilateral; two-loop handles. Lacquer cover. Mishima technique.

  Clay: medium, fired chocolate brown; textile pattern impressed on base.

  Glaze: glossy, celadon tone over gray.

  Decoration: chrysanthemum borders about and below cranes flying among clouds.

• Label

  The densely impressed stamps, well filled with slip, show freshly under a cool celadon glaze on this water-jar that would be pleasant for summer use. The stamps are related to Korean models, but they are applied playfully--no two sides of the jar are exactly alike in design. The rustic motif is completed by the shape of the jar, made to resemble a square wooden bucket with rope handles.

• Provenance

  To 1899

  Yamanaka & Company, New York 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] Undated folder sheet note. See Original Pottery List, L. 84, 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

  Korean Style in Japanese Ceramics (August 23, 2013 to February 9, 2014)

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

  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

  Kyoto, Kyoto prefecture, Japan

• Credit Line

  Gift of Charles Lang Freer

• Type

  Vessel

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• Name

  Freer, Charles Lang, Yamanaka and Co.

• Place

  Kyoto, Japan, Kyoto prefecture

• Topic

  Water, Art, Inlay (process), Stoneware, Ceramics, Crane, Yatsushiro ware, Charles Lang Freer collection, Chrysanthemum, White slip, Kyoto ware, Edo period, Japan, (1600 - 1868), Japanese Art, Lacquer

• Culture

  Japanese

• Object Type

  Vessels (containers)