Serving bowl with mishima style decoration

Object Details

• Artist

  Kiyomizu Rokubei II (1777-1847)

• Description

  Tea-bowl, large flaring-ovoidal; bold foot.

  Clay: dense, gray.

  Glaze: dark-gray and thin white, over dark brown wash.

  Decoration: inlaid in white paste, under glaze.

  Mark

• Marks

  Mark

• Label

  Kiyomizu Rokubei II was head of his family's ceramic workshop in Kyoto from 1811 to 1838. For this vessel, he adhered closely to the orthodox Korean bowl shape of the fifteenth-sixteenth century and the technique of inlaid decoration, known in Japan as mishima, probably working from an actual model. Kyoto workmanship is discernible in the variety of leaf-and-flower shaped stamps and in the well-fused semi-matte glaze. Rokubei's hexagonal seal is impressed near the foot.

• Provenance

  To 1906

  Mr. D. J. Ushikubo, New York, NY, to 1906 [1]

  From 1906 to 1919

  Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), given by Mr. D. J. Ushikubo in 1906 [2]

  From 1920

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

  Notes:

  [1] See Original Pottery List, L. 470, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives. The majority of Charles Lang Freer’s purchases from Yamanaka & Company were made at its New York branch. Yamanaka & Company maintained branch offices, at various times, in Boston, Chicago, London, Peking, Shanghai, Osaka, Nara, and Kyoto. During the summer, the company also maintained seasonal locations in Newport, Bar Harbor, and Atlantic City.

  [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

  Korean Style in Japanese Ceramics (August 23, 2013 to February 9, 2014)

  Korean Influences on Japanese Slip-Decorated Ceramics (February 16, 1984 to November 9, 1984)

• Previous custodian or owner

  D. J. Ushikubo (C.L. Freer source)

  Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)

• Origin

  Gojozaka, Kyoto, Kyoto prefecture, Japan

• Credit Line

  Gift of Charles Lang Freer

• Type

  Vessel

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• Name

  Ushikubo, D. J., Freer, Charles Lang

• Place

  Kyoto, Japan, Gojozaka, Kyoto prefecture

• Topic

  Tea, Charles Lang Freer collection, Art, Inlay (process), Stoneware, Chinese Art, Edo period, Japan, (1600 - 1868), Ceramics

• Culture

  Chinese

• Object Type

  Vessels (containers)