Karatsu ware tea ceremony water jar, Takeo Karatsu type

Object Details

• Description

  Tea-ceremony water jar (mizusashi 水指])

  Cylindrical; rudimentary handles; heavy foot, notched.

  Clay: hard, dense, stoneware, reddish on surface, grayish on interior

  Glaze: White slip, brushed horizontally (visible at foot), under blue, blended with green, yellow-olive, purple, and greenish-brown underfired area; dark crackle.

  Decoration: incised pairs of rings circling body, one each above and below lugs, cut through slip.

• Provenance

  To 1906

  Spier Collection, London, to 1906 [1]

  From 1906 to 1919

  Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), puchased from Spier Collection, London, in 1906 [2]

  From 1920

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

  Notes:

  [1] See Original Pottery List, L. 9, 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)

• Previous custodian or owner

  Julius Spier (1848-1923) (C.L. Freer source)

  Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)

• Origin

  Takeo Karatsu kilns, Takeo, Saga prefecture, Japan

• Credit Line

  Gift of Charles Lang Freer

• Type

  Vessel

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• Name

  Freer, Charles Lang, Spier, Julius

• Place

  Takeo Karatsu kilns, Takeo, Japan, Saga prefecture

• Topic

  Karatsu ware, Takeo Karatsu type, Tea, Charles Lang Freer collection, Art, Stoneware, Edo period, Japan, (1600 - 1868), Japanese Art, Ceramics

• Culture

  Japanese

• Object Type

  Vessels (containers)