Tea caddy, Karatsu ware, E-Karatsu type

Object Details

• Description

  Tea caddy (chaire) low broad from; unglazed foot recessed; ivory cover.

  Clay: coarse gray stoneware.

  Glaze: brown with two areas of lavendar mottling; crackled.

  Decoration: a few lines and spots of unglaze iron around the shoulder.

  The lid that came with this tea caddy never belonged to it; it is too large and the wrong shape.

• Label

  Rice-straw ash in the glaze created the opalescent blue effect. High heat during firing slightly softened the form.

• Provenance

  To 1905

  Yamanaka & Company, New York, NY, to 1905 [1]

  From 1905 to 1919

  Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Yamanaka & Company in 1905 [2]

  From 1920

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

  Notes:

  [1] See Original Pottery List, L. 1447, 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

  Cornucopia: Ceramics of Southern Japan (December 19, 2009 to January 9, 2011)

  Freer and Tea II: Raku, Hagi, Karatsu (July 8, 2006 to January 1, 2007)

  Japanese Art (November 7, 1986 to July 19, 1988)

  Japanese Ceramics (April 11, 1978 to January 17, 1980)

• Previous custodian or owner

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

  Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)

• Origin

  Saga prefecture or Nagasaki prefecture, Japan

• Credit Line

  Gift of Charles Lang Freer

• Type

  Vessel

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• Related Resources

  collections.si.edu

• Date

  1590s, 1610s

• Name

  Freer, Charles Lang, Yamanaka and Co.

• Place

  Nagasaki prefecture, Japan, Saga prefecture

• Topic

  Tea, Charles Lang Freer collection, Art, Momoyama period (1573 - 1615), Karatsu ware, E-karatsu type, Stoneware, Japanese Art, Ceramics

• Culture

  Japanese

• Object Type

  Vessels (containers)