Mino ware tea-leaf storage jar

Object Details

• Description

  Light gray clay, fine grained and hard. Concentrically trimmed base. Four lugs on shoulder. Single line incised at base of neck; broad band of decorative combing below angle of shoulder. Impressed mark on base shaped like "walnut meat" (kurumi-in). Opaque brown iron glaze, stopping well above foot, splashed with ash glaze that appears black where well melted, yellow-brown where incompletely melted. Some kiln debris on shoulder. Inside inglazed.

• Inscriptions

  Impressed mark on base shaped like "walnut meat" (kurumi-in).

• Provenance

  To 1900

  Hayashi Tadamasa, (1853 -1906), Paris, to 1900 [1]

  From 1900 to 1919

  Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Hayashi Tadamasa in 1900 [2]

  From 1920

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

  Notes:

  [1] See Original Pottery List, L. 782, 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

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

  The Potter's Mark: Tea Ceramics and Their Makers (August 18, 2007 to February 24, 2008)

  Japanese Ceramics from Seto and Mino (January 19, 1996 to August 5, 2001)

• Previous custodian or owner

  Hayashi Tadamasa 林 忠正? (1853-1906) (C.L. Freer source)

  Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)

• Origin

  Dachi or Okawa kilns, Toki or Mizunami city, Gifu prefecture, Japan

• Credit Line

  Gift of Charles Lang Freer

• Type

  Vessel

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• Name

  Freer, Charles Lang, Hayashi, Tadamasa

• Place

  Japan, Mizunami city, Gifu prefecture, Dachi, Okawa kilns, Toki

• Topic

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

• Culture

  Japanese

• Object Type

  Vessels (containers)