Individual serving bowl

Object Details

• Description

  Individual serving bowl (mukozuke 向付): thinly potted, low thinly trimmed foot. Four chips in lip.

  Clay: fine-grained brown stoneware.

  Glaze: thin, transparent, semi-matte, some fine crackle, some pitting, covers all but bearing edge of foot.

  Decoration: underglaze; thick creamy slip laid on with special brush (hakeme decoration) with patting and a motion to create a pattern characteristic of this ware.

  One of a pair: F1911.327, F1911.328.

• Provenance

  To 1911

  Unidentified owner, Kai Feng-fu, Honan, China, to 1911 [1]

  From 1911 to 1919

  Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from an unidentified owner in Kai Feng-fu, Honan, China, in 1911 [2]

  From 1920

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

  Notes:

  [1] See Original Pottery List, L. 2097, 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

  Garden Potteries and Official Kilns: Clan-Sponsored Ceramics in the Edo Period (January 16, 1986 to November 3, 1986)

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

  Japanese Ceramics (June 22, 1982 to September 27, 1982)

  Japanese Ceramics/Puppets (June 16, 1980 to July 14, 1980)

  Japanese Ceramics (July 15, 1980 to June 21, 1982)

  Japanese Ceramics (April 11, 1978 to January 17, 1980)

• Previous custodian or owner

  Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)

• Origin

  Isahaya, Nagasaki prefecture, Japan

• Credit Line

  Gift of Charles Lang Freer

• Type

  Vessel

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• Name

  Freer, Charles Lang

• Place

  Isahaya, Nagasaki prefecture, Japan

• Topic

  Art, White slip, Stoneware, Edo period, Japan, (1600 - 1868), Japanese Art, Utsutsugawa ware

• Culture

  Japanese

• Object Type

  Vessels (containers)