Tea bowl in hori-mishima style, Kyushu-related kiln

Object Details

• Description

  Deep ovoidal, with high foot. Much repaired with gold lacquer.

  Clay: hard, dense, grayish.

  Glaze: pale greenish-blue over a heavy white slip darkened by age; brown crackle. Pitted and stained. Underfired.

  Decoration: incised in the paste under glaze, on outside: two tiers of zig-zag combing.

• Provenance

  Matsuoka Collection, Kanazawa, Japan [1]

  To 1904

  Yamanaka & Company, to 1904 [2]

  From 1904 to 1919

  Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Yamanaka & Company in 1904 [3]

  From 1920

  Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [4]

  Notes:

  [1] See Curatorial Remark 1 in the object record.

  [2] See Original Pottery List, L. 1323, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives. The majority of Charles Lang Freer’s purchases from Yamanaka & Company were made at its New York branch. Yamanaka & Company maintained branch offices, at various times, in Boston, Chicago, London, Peking, Shanghai, Osaka, Nara, and Kyoto. During the summer, the company also maintained seasonal locations in Newport, Bar Harbor, and Atlantic City.

  [3] See note 2.

  [4] 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, The Japan Society, February 1914 (February 1914)

• Previous custodian or owner

  Matsuoka collection, Kanazawa

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

  Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)

• Origin

  Japan

• Credit Line

  Gift of Charles Lang Freer

• Type

  Vessel

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• Name

  Freer, Charles Lang, Yamanaka and Co., Matsuoka collection

• Place

  Japan

• Topic

  Tea, Charles Lang Freer collection, Art, Lacquer repair, White slip, Stoneware, Edo period, Japan, (1600 - 1868), Japanese Art, Lacquer, Kyushu-related ware, Ceramics

• Culture

  Japanese

• Object Type

  Vessels (containers)