Bizen ware tea ceremony water jar

Object Details

• Description

  Covered jar; loop handle on top; two peaches in relief on sides; the other two sides pressed in at center; gold lacquer repairs on lid.

  Clay: fine, fired reddish brown.

  Glaze: lustrous reddish brown mottled with black; yellow spots of applied ash glaze.

  Impressed mark: small circle.

• Provenance

  To 1907

  Unidentified owner, Japan, to 1907 [1]

  From 1907 to 1919

  Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased in Japan from an unidentified owner in spring 1907 [2]

  From 1920

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

  Notes:

  [1] See Original Pottery List, L. 1572, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives. Also, the object's box contained labels that might offer additional information regarding past owners of this object (see Curatorial Remark 7, L.A. Cort, December 1982, in the object record).

  [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

  Tea in the Floating World (December 8, 2002 to May 26, 2003)

  Boxed In: Japanese Ceramics and Their Storage Boxes (September 23, 1982 to February 17, 1983)

• Previous custodian or owner

  Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)

• Origin

  Imbe, Okayama prefecture, Japan

• Credit Line

  Gift of Charles Lang Freer

• Type

  Vessel

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• Name

  Freer, Charles Lang

• Place

  Imbe, Japan, Okayama prefecture

• Topic

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

• Culture

  Japanese

• Object Type

  Vessels (containers)