Karatsu ware vase, Takeo Karatsu type

Object Details

• Description

  Karatsu ware, Takeo Karatsu kiln group; mishima and kohiki techniques.

  Vase. Rounded body, tall cylindrical neck, two vertical loop handles.

  Clay: medium stoneware fired brown.

  Glaze: transparent, crackled and stained areas.

  Decoration: white slip on neck and handles and in incised design on body.

• Label

  Centuries-old Chinese prototypes are evoked in this large vase shape, which once had a large, dish-shaped mouth. Such vases were used for formal floral displays in alcoves of reception rooms. The combination of the slip coating on the cylindrical neck and paired ornamental handles and the slip inlay on the incised and stamped motifs on the bulbous body, under a clear glaze, creates a striking two-color effect.

• Provenance

  To 1904

  V. G. Fischer Art Company, Washington, DC, to 1904 [1]

  From 1904 to 1919

  Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchase,

  from V. G. Fischer Art Company in 1904 [2]

  From 1920

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

  Notes:

  [1] See Original Pottery List, L. 1283, 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

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

• Previous custodian or owner

  V. G. Fischer Art Company (C.L. Freer source)

  Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)

• Origin

  Okusano kiln, Takeo, Saga prefecture, Japan

• Credit Line

  Gift of Charles Lang Freer

• Type

  Vessel

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• Name

  V. G. Fischer Art Company, Freer, Charles Lang

• Place

  Takeo, Japan, Saga prefecture, Okusano kiln

• Topic

  Karatsu ware, Takeo Karatsu type, Charles Lang Freer collection, Art, Stoneware, Edo period, Japan, (1600 - 1868), Japanese Art, Ceramics

• Culture

  Japanese

• Object Type

  Vessels (containers)