Shigaraki ware wide-mouthed jar

Object Details

• Description

  Large vat (kame). Gold lacquer repairs.

  Clay: soft, dense, buff. Stoneware.

  Glaze: mingled gray, greenish-gray, and pinkish-cream; splash of deep green-blue. Overbaked. Interior glazed with (copper) green lead glaze, spilling over rim and shoulder. Traces of purple and brown lead glazes. Base glazed.

• Previous custodian or owner

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

  Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)

• Provenance

  To 1905

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

  From 1905 to 1919

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

  From 1920

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

  Notes:

  [1] See Original Pottery List, L. 1384, 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.

• Origin

  Shigaraki, Shiga prefecture, Japan

• Credit Line

  Gift of Charles Lang Freer

• Type

  Vessel

• On View

  Freer Gallery 05: Rinpa Screens

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• Name

  Freer, Charles Lang, Yamanaka and Co.

• Place

  Shiga prefecture, Japan, Shigaraki

• Topic

  Art, Lacquer repair, Stoneware, Shigaraki ware, Edo period, Japan, (1600 - 1868), Japanese Art, Meiji era (1868 - 1912)

• Culture

  Japanese

• Object Type

  Vessels (containers)

• On View

  Yes