Dish

Object Details

• Description

  Dish, low, round, or irregular contour, moulded with spiral corrugations. Repaired with gold lacquer.

  Clay: hard, dense.

  Glaze: rich, yellow-cream filling hollows or corrugations, over gray-blue; minutely crackled.

• Provenance

  Matsuoka Collection, Kanazawa, Japan [1]

  To 1904

  Yamanaka & Company, New York, NY, to 1904 [2]

  From 1904 to 1919

  Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Yamanaka & Company, New York, NY, 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. 1329, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives.

  [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

  Golden Seams: The Japanese Art of Mending Ceramics (November 8, 2008 to May 10, 2009)

• 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

  Kumamoto prefecture, 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, Kumamoto prefecture

• Topic

  Art, Lacquer repair, Stoneware, Edo period, Japan, (1600 - 1868), Japanese Art, Yatsushiro ware

• Culture

  Japanese

• Object Type

  Vessels (containers)