Bowl with rounded base

Object Details

• Description

  Bowl; small, with rounded base; pottery cover

  Clay: gray, medium

  Glaze: slight ash glaze on lid.

  Decoration: none

• Provenance

  To 1907

  Unidentified priest, Toji Temple, Kyoto, Japan, to 1907 [1]

  From 1907 to 1919

  Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), given by an unidentified priest at Toji Temple in Kyoto, Japan, in 1907 [2]

  From 1920

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

  Notes:

  [1] See Original Pottery List, L. 1594, 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

• Previous custodian or owner

  Toji Temple

  Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)

• Origin

  Japan

• Credit Line

  Gift of Charles Lang Freer

• Type

  Vessel

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• Related Resources

  collections.si.edu

• Date

  300s, 400s

• Name

  Freer, Charles Lang, Toji Temple

• Place

  Japan

• Topic

  Kofun (Tumulus) Period (250 - 552), Art, Sue ware, Stoneware, Japanese Art

• Culture

  Japanese

• Object Type

  Vessels (containers)