Kyoto ware tea bowl with brushstroke design

Object Details

• Artist

  Shonsui Gorosuke 祥瑞五郎助

• Description

  Tea-bowl, ovoidal; low foot.

  Clay: hard, gray-white.

  Glaze: thin brown and greenish-yellow, partly covered by thick light yellow hakeme.

  Mark: Shonzui Gorosuke, in pentagonal frame.

• Marks

  Shonzui Gorosuke, in pentagonal frame.

• Provenance

  To 1901

  R. Wagner, Berlin, to 1901 [1]

  From 1901 to 1919

  Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from R. Wagner in 1901 [2]

  From 1920

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

  Notes:

  [1] See Original Pottery List, L. 871, 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

  Tea in the Floating World (December 8, 2002 to May 26, 2003)

  Korean Influences on Japanese Slip-Decorated Ceramics (February 16, 1984 to November 9, 1984)

  Kyoto Ceramics (November 9, 1984 to April 25, 1985)

• Previous custodian or owner

  R. Wagner (C.L. Freer source)

  Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)

• Origin

  Gojozaka, Kyoto, Kyoto prefecture, Japan

• Credit Line

  Gift of Charles Lang Freer

• Type

  Vessel

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• Name

  Wagner, R., Freer, Charles Lang

• Place

  Kyoto, Japan, Gojozaka, Kyoto prefecture

• Topic

  Tea, Charles Lang Freer collection, Art, Stoneware, Kyoto ware, Edo period, Japan, (1600 - 1868), Japanese Art, Ceramics

• Culture

  Japanese

• Object Type

  Vessels (containers)