Jar

Object Details

• Description

  Jar. Wooden plug and brocade cover.

  Clay: hard, sonorous, gray.

  Glaze: thick stone gray, interrupted by applied glazes of decoration.

  Decoration: dragon and clouds, modeled in relief, glazed with green, blue, brown, aubergine, turquoise-blue, gray-green, and cream.

• Provenance

  Ikeda Seisuke, Kyoto, Japan [1]

  From at least 1896 to 1906

  Colonel Frank J. Hecker (1846-1927), to 1906 [2]

  From 1906 to 1919

  Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), given by Colonel Frank J. Hecker in 1906 [3]

  From 1920

  Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [4]

  Notes:

  [1] According to Louise Cort, Col. Hecker bought the jar no later that 1896. Before that the jar had belonged to Ikeda Seisuke, a dealer in Kyoto.

  [2] Object file. See also note 1.

  [3] See note 2.

  [4] 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

• Previous custodian or owner

  Colonel Frank J. Hecker (1846-1927) (C.L. Freer source)

  Ikeda Seisuke (1839-1900)

  Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)

• Origin

  Tsu, Mie prefecture, Japan

• Credit Line

  Gift of Charles Lang Freer

• Type

  Vessel

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• Name

  Hecker, Frank J., Freer, Charles Lang, Ikeda, Seisuke

• Place

  Japan, Tsu, Mie prefecture

• Topic

  Tea, Charles Lang Freer collection, Art, Stoneware, Banko ware, Edo period, Japan, (1600 - 1868), Cloud, Japanese Art, Ceramics, Meiji era (1868 - 1912), Anto ware, Dragon

• Culture

  Japanese

• Object Type

  Vessels (containers)