Satsuma ware tea bowl, Ryumonji kilns
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Period
mid 18th-mid 19th century -
Geography
Ryumonji kilns, Kagoshima prefecture, Japan -
Material
Stoneware with iron and rice-straw-ash glazes -
Dimension
H x Diam: 9.3 × 13.1 cm (3 11/16 × 5 3/16 in) -
Accession Number
F1899.85 -
EDAN ID
edanmdm:fsg_F1899.85
Object Details
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Description
Tea bowl. Spiral cut in base.Clay: dense, sonorous, grayish. Reddish-brown on surface.Glaze: mottled gray over dark olive, brown, and black, in snake-skin effect.Two decorative "crest" designs in white glaze on walls. Footrim and base unglazed. -
Provenance
To 1899Bunkio Matsuki (1867-1940), Boston, to 1899 [1]From 1899 to 1919Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Bunkio Matsuki in 1899 [2]From 1920Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [3]Notes:[1] Undated folder sheet note. See Original Pottery List, L. 447, 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 -
Previous custodian or owner
Bunkio Matsuki 松木文恭 (1867-1940) (C.L. Freer source)Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919) -
Origin
Ryumonji kilns, Kagoshima prefecture, Japan -
Credit Line
Gift of Charles Lang Freer -
Type
Vessel -
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