Hagi ware sake bottle with faceted sides

Object Details

• Description

  Sake bottle with faceted sides.

  Clay: hard, dense, grayish.

  Glaze: brilliant blended cream, pink, gray, and blue; finely crackled; slightly iridescent. Rice-straw ash glaze.

  Inscription on base, in ink.

• Inscriptions

  Inscription on base, in ink.

• Label

  Hagi ware, made at a kiln in southern Japan founded in the early seventeenth century by immigrant Korean potters, is famed for its tea bowls. Hagi potters also made a range of tableware and serving vessels such as this sake bottle. The faceted bottle bears Hagi's trademark milky white glaze, formulated with rice-straw ash.

• Provenance

  To 1911

  Kita Toranosuke, Kyoto, to 1911 [1]

  From 1911 to 1919

  Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Kita Toranosuke, Kyoto, in 1911 [2]

  From 1920

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

  Notes:

  [1] See Original Pottery List, L. 2172, 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

  The Peacock Room Comes to America [2022] (September 3, 2022 - ongoing)

  The Peacock Room Comes to America [2011-2016] (April 9, 2011 to January 4, 2016)

  Life and Leisure: Everyday Life in Japanese Art (August 14, 2004 to February 20, 2005)

• Previous custodian or owner

  Kita Toranosuke (C.L. Freer source)

  Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)

• Origin

  Fukawa kilns, Nagato, Yamaguchi prefecture, Japan

• Credit Line

  Gift of Charles Lang Freer

• Type

  Vessel

• On View

  Freer Gallery 12: The Peacock Room Comes to America

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• Name

  Freer, Charles Lang, Kita, Toranosuke

• Place

  Fukawa kilns, Japan, Nagato, Yamaguchi prefecture

• Topic

  Water, Wine and wine making, Charles Lang Freer collection, Art, Stoneware, Edo period, Japan, (1600 - 1868), Japanese Art, Hagi ware, Iridescence, Ceramics, Sake

• Culture

  Japanese

• Object Type

  Vessels (containers)

• On View

  Yes