Kutani ware jar for "Tomo shiraga" brand sake

Object Details

• Description

  Large jar. Repaired with gold lacquer.

  Clay: coarse, hard, gray. Stoneware.

  Glaze: cream-white slip, showing brush marks under clear glaze. Pitted and fissured. where slip applied over trimmed areas.

  Inscriptions: (front) Tomo shiraga [Jpn]; (back) Mitsumata Kutani zo [Jpn].

• Inscriptions

  Inscription painted on side: "Tomo Shirage" in large letters. "Friend, white hair." "Frined always, even with white hair." An inscription painted on other side: "Mitsumata, Kyukoku, Tsu-kuru, family name, name, made."

• Provenance

  To 1901

  Yamanaka & Company, New York, NY, to 1901 [1]

  From 1901 to 1919

  Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Yamanaka & Company in 1901 [2]

  From 1920

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

  Notes:

  [1] See Original Pottery List, L. 1036, 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

  Untitled Exhibition, Japanese Hanging Scrolls, Ceramics, and Sculpture (October 2, 1947 to January 23, 1951)

  Untitled Exhibition, Japanese Ceramics and Painting (May 2, 1946 to October 2, 1947)

  Japanese and Korean Pottery, and Korean Bronze (May 2, 1923 to March 22, 1943)

• Previous custodian or owner

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

  Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)

• Origin

  Ishikawa prefecture, Japan

• Credit Line

  Gift of Charles Lang Freer

• Type

  Vessel

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• Name

  Freer, Charles Lang, Yamanaka and Co.

• Place

  Japan, Ishikawa prefecture

• Topic

  Kutani ware, Charles Lang Freer collection, Art, Stoneware, Edo period, Japan, (1600 - 1868), Japanese Art, Ceramics, Meiji era (1868 - 1912), Sake

• Culture

  Japanese

• Object Type

  Vessels (containers)