Individual serving bowl, Shidoro ware

Object Details

• Description

  Tea bowl, inverted bell-shape; low foot.

  Clay: hard, musical; light gray.

  Glaze: reddish-brown, with overflow of yellow and olive, and splash of dull metallic brownish-black at one place on rim. Footrim and base unglazed.

  Seal: Shidoro [Jpn], inside rectangular frame, to right inside footrim.

• Marks

  Shidoro [Jap], inside rectangular frame, to right inside footrim.

• Provenance

  To 1902

  Shozo Kato, London, to 1902 [1]

  From 1902 to 1919

  Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Shozo Kato in 1902 [2]

  From 1920

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

  Notes:

  [1] See Original Pottery List, L. 1167, 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

  Shozo Kato (1851-1930) (C.L. Freer source)

  Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)

• Origin

  Shizuoka prefecture, Japan

• Credit Line

  Gift of Charles Lang Freer

• Type

  Vessel

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• Name

  Kato, Shozo, Freer, Charles Lang

• Place

  Shizuoka prefecture, Japan

• Topic

  Tea, Charles Lang Freer collection, Art, Stoneware, Edo period, Japan, (1600 - 1868), Japanese Art, Shidoro ware, Brown and black glaze, Ceramics

• Culture

  Japanese

• Object Type

  Vessels (containers)