Mino ware Yellow Seto style individual serving bowl with plum-blossom design

Object Details

• Description

  Buff clay. Basket-weave pattern incised in three equidistant places around everted rim, alternating with sketchily incised lines splashed with iron and copper sulfate pigments; incised design of plum blossom and branches in botttom traced with copper and iron. Light yellow ash glaze, opaque and granular, covering base except for circualar scar from clay firing ring inside foot rim.

• Provenance

  To 1905

  H. R. Yamamato, to 1905 [1]

  From 1905 to 1919

  Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from H. R. Yamamoto in 1905 [2]

  From 1920

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

  Notes:

  [1] See Original Pottery List, L. 1421, 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

  Japanese Ceramics from Seto and Mino (January 19, 1996 to August 5, 2001)

  The Glazed Ceramic Tradition of Mino and Seto Wares (April 26, 1985 to January 13, 1986)

• Previous custodian or owner

  H. R. Yamamoto (C.L. Freer source)

  Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)

• Origin

  Mino kilns, Gifu prefecture, Japan

• Credit Line

  Gift of Charles Lang Freer

• Type

  Vessel

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• Related Resources

  collections.si.edu

• Date

  1600s, 1580s

• Name

  Freer, Charles Lang, Yamamoto, H. R.

• Place

  Japan, Gifu prefecture, Mino kilns

• Topic

  Charles Lang Freer collection, Art, Momoyama period (1573 - 1615), Stoneware, Japanese Art, Mino ware, Yellow Seto type, Ceramics, Plum blossom

• Culture

  Japanese

• Object Type

  Vessels (containers)