Tea ceremony water jar with design of pine and plum trees

Object Details

• Artist

  False signature of Hon'ami Koho (1601-1682)

• Description

  Tea-cermony water jar with matching lid (tomobuta mizusashi [Jpn]) Lid apparently added later.

  Clay: dense, coarse, gray-white, with stone inclusions: Shigaraki type stoneware.

  Glaze: Natural ash glaze on one side, opposite decoration; uneven gray lead glaze applied overall, inside and out. Pine and plum trees, in white slip under gray glaze.

  Mark: Kuchu, written in black pigment under the glaze on the base.

• Marks

  Mark: Kuchu, written in black pigment under the glaze on the base.

• Provenance

  To 1901

  Kano Oshima, to 1901 [1]

  From 1901 to 1919

  Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Kano Oshima in 1901 [2]

  From 1920

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

  Notes:

  [1] Undated folder sheet note. Also see Original Pottery List, L. 851, 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

  The Peacock Room Comes to America [2022] (September 3, 2022 - ongoing)

  The Peacock Room Comes to America [2017-2019] (October 14, 2017 to January 2, 2019)

• Previous custodian or owner

  Kano Oshima (C.L. Freer source)

  Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)

• Origin

  Japan

• Credit Line

  Gift of Charles Lang Freer

• Type

  Vessel

• On View

  Freer Gallery 12: The Peacock Room Comes to America

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• Name

  Freer, Charles Lang, Kano, Oshima

• Place

  Japan

• Topic

  Water, Art, Stoneware, Ceramics, Plum blossom, Pine tree, Tea, Charles Lang Freer collection, White slip, Wood-ash glaze, Edo period, Japan, (1600 - 1868), Japanese Art, Meiji era (1868 - 1912)

• Culture

  Japanese

• Object Type

  Vessels (containers)

• On View

  Yes