Vase with drum-shaped body and elephant head handles

Object Details

• Description

  Vase with drum-shaped body and elephant head handles.

  Clay: gray, fired dark reddish brown; heavily potted.

  Glaze: reddish brown mottled with black; yellow splashes and large areas of silver.

  Impressed mark.

• Provenance

  To 1905

  Thomas E. Waggaman (1839-1906), Washington, DC, to 1905 [1]

  From 1905 to 1919

  Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased at the sale of the Waggaman Collection, American Art Association, New York, NY, January 25-February 3, 1905 [2]

  From 1920

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

  Notes:

  [1] See Original Pottery List, L. 1345, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives. Also see Curatorial Remark 9, Louise Cort, June 17, 2008, in the object record.

  [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

  The Peacock Room Comes to America [2022] (September 3, 2022 - ongoing)

  The Peacock Room Comes to America [2017-2019] (October 14, 2017 to January 2, 2019)

  The Peacock Room Comes to America [2011-2016] (April 9, 2011 to January 4, 2016)

  James McNeill Whistler at the Freer Gallery of Art—Whistler and the Figure (May 11, 1984 to December 16, 1984)

• Previous custodian or owner

  Thomas E. Waggaman (1839-1906)

  American Art Association (established 1883) (C.L. Freer source)

  Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)

• Origin

  Imbe, Okayama prefecture, Japan

• Credit Line

  Gift of Charles Lang Freer

• Type

  Vessel

• On View

  Freer Gallery 12: The Peacock Room Comes to America

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• Name

  Waggaman, Thomas E., American Art Association, Freer, Charles Lang

• Place

  Imbe, Japan, Okayama prefecture

• Topic

  Charles Lang Freer collection, Art, Animals, Bizen ware, Stoneware, Edo period, Japan, (1600 - 1868), Japanese Art, Ceramics, Elephants

• Culture

  Japanese

• Object Type

  Vessels (containers)

• On View

  Yes